Word: joke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...greater Israel is justified by the Bible and that the nation can never return to its pre-1967 borders. Nor would Israel ever tolerate a Palestinian state ruled by a "bloodthirsty enemy who kills women and children and enjoys and promises to continue it." He did offer one small joke: "I have sensational news for you. I spent the whole day in Washington and nobody asked me to resign...
...about his lead paragraph after the baseball team lost to Holy Cross 21-4 two years ago: "If it was a joke it would have been funny, but it wasn't a joke, but it was funny...
Thomas F. Pettigrew, Harvard sociology professor: "The Dallas plan was a joke. Boston set out to desegregate its schools. Dallas set out to attempt to avoid desegregating its schools...
...pleased to see my fair city featured in TIME. Perhaps Mayor Kucinich realizes that Cleveland is only noticed when it provides incidents to reaffirm its status as a national joke...
...young Gelsey and was not entirely charmed. "Gelsey was born mad at the world," he says. "She was born ready to kill." Former Dancer Meg Gordon, one of Gelsey's few close friends, remembers the same thing in softer focus: "Even when we were little, her mother used to joke about it, saying, 'You must have come out of your mother's womb marching...