Word: joker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Whitman Hall a Practical joker, the date of one of the girls involved, forged the names of three girls to the petition. As a result, the document was banned from Whitman, despite the fact that the fourth signature was the real thing...
...Joker. Moreover-and this sent Britons cabling home for instructions-Russia would accept payment for her wares in local currency and spend the money in the country of origin. Peking Banker Nan Han-chen, the chief Chinese delegate, was equally specific about Chinese wants. Said one Briton: "These people [the Chinese] didn't come here to shoot off hot air, but to do business." Down in the fine print was the joker: the West must end its embargo against the Soviet bloc, and especially against Red China...
...joker is, of course, that allocations will probably be made for a limited time only: if they are not picked up by educators in a year or so, they'll be wide open for the commercial interests again...
...seconds, there was the loudest hush 5,000 men have ever heard. The inevitable joker uttered the inevitable "pop," but his voice quavered. Then came a flash that outshone...
Occasionally, a practical joker gave the number to an unsuspecting friend. It made no difference to Dad Hall, or to the volunteer assistants who came to help him. Even the drunks listened. "A bar is a bar to heaven and a gate to hell," Hall would tell them, "and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise." Homeless down & outers came to his mission for help; a light burned in the window all night. And the telephone kept ringing...