Word: joker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Second, there's one joker in the requirement of six courses. Only two of these can be on the freshman level. Thus, a student must either take seven courses, or start math, physics, or astronomy at the intermediate level...
Leftist Faiz is best known as an Urdu poet. Both soldiers are career officers from the old Indian army. Akbar Khan enjoys an added reputation as a practical joker. Once, to amuse himself, if not his friends, he had an aide read fake news bulletins over a microphone connected to his home radio. While Akbar chuckled, his worried guests heard realistic descriptions of the death of one guest's father, a fire which burned down another's house, and an earthquake in an area where a third man owned property...
...upperclassmen besieged Shannon Hall this fall to join up in one of Harvard's R.O.T.C. units, the Army unit's cycle of popularity reached another peak. It had happened in 1914 and again before the last war, when R.O.T.C. enrollments jumped 50 percent. But this time there was a joker only 46 freshmen showed...
While Comrade Buber worked at shoveling dung or weeding fields, her fellow inmates died around her in droves-by suicide, or of malnutrition or disease. Then one day in 1940, Stalin played his final joker on his German Communist prisoners: as a symbol of solidarity under the Nazi-Soviet pact, he turned scores of them over to Hitler, who lost no time in throwing them into concentration camps. Hardly a handful was still alive by April...
...apparently has been able to train the men to use them. The labor force is unstable because it is at the mercy of any bureaucrat's interpretation of the Plan. "Just when we get a good gang of men working," said a U.S. engineer at Zenica, "some joker decides to send them to another...