Word: jokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Byrnes, the South Carolinian politician, Stalin seemed different. "Where Molotov is devious, Stalin is direct. . . . He was always in good humor and enjoyed a joke." Jimmy Byrnes now says that he was not fooled, although it took him and President Truman some time to find out Stalin's true nature. "It clearly has been Stalin who has called the tune," writes Byrnes, "and Molotov who has made it last as long as a symphony...
...Lakhidnya asked a U.S. lieutenant: "When you will start fighting the Russians?" The lieutenant had heard the question many times before. Jokingly he pointed to a row of carbines: "When we have two more guns." To Lakhidnya it was a poor joke. But he smiled politely and said: "One pistol-that all you need. That-and one ammunition...
...first whirlwind week in Manchuria, Chen invited 100 bigwigs to a tea party in Mukden. While his notable guests were sipping tea, Chen made them a little speech: "You gentlemen here can trust me when I say I have never squeezed. In this respect-to make a joke-I am 50 years old and like the spinster who has gone through many hard years struggling to keep her virtue spotless and knowing well that relations with a man even once would have ruined her reputation forever." Politely the 100 guests laughed...
...straight tournaments and was stricken with appendicitis on the eve of Forest Hills. The next year it was ptomaine poisoning. In the 1944 and 1945 seasons, he was off on Coast Guard duty. He talks about it as though it happened to somebody else and was all a big joke...
...elite, bureaucrats usually wangle the cushy administrative jobs, political offenders most often are worked to death by a deliberate policy of bloodless liquidations. A political offender need not be a man or woman who wants to toss a bomb at Stalin, but merely one who tells a disrespectful joke about...