Word: jocular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...understand that there was no "jocular" motive involved in placing "The Aaron Burr Memorial Press Room" plaque in the U.S. Treasury Department Building, Washington, D.C. [Sept. 11]. It was instead an appropriate recognition of a man who was willing, when it seemed necessary, even to criticize some of the founding fathers themselves...
...doesn't go to your head." He added smilingly that Tanaka, a self-made construction millionaire who is not averse to taking a drink on occasion, "should be able to hold it." Tanaka's hour-long audience with Chairman Mao Tse-tung at midweek was equally jocular. "Is the fighting over?" Mao asked, referring to Tanaka's talks with the Chinese Premier. "With Chou," Mao went on, "it's imperative that you quarrel first. Only when you quarrel first can you become a fast friend...
...might be called "the Fat Jap Syndrome," in honor of Spiro Agnew's jocular question aboard a campaign plane in 1968, when he observed Baltimore Sun Reporter Gene Oishi asleep in his seat and inquired, "What's the matter with the fat Jap?" What was intended as bluff bonhomie immediately appeared to be racial callousness...
...page boy. It is already part of Capitol Hill mythology that when the courtly House doorkeeper, Mississippian William ("Fish Bait") Miller, asked her not to wear one of her trademark broadbrim hats onto the House floor, she briskly replied, "Go f -yourself." Actually, Fish Bait says, the exchange was jocular; they are "big buddies...
Apart from the jocular jottings of Columnist Russell Baker, the New York Times is not noted for its humor. Some delightful deadpan gave a lift to its front page last week, however, when Music Critic Harold Schonberg was, as it were, thrown to the wolves...