Word: jokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After dinner on Thanksgiving Day a year ago, Jimmy Byrnes sat alone in his Washington office, abysmally gloomy. The world had peace, but the word sounded like a bad joke. The London meeting of the Foreign Ministers had failed; not even the beginning of a peace treaty was in sight; there were even fears that Russia would not attend the first U.N. Assembly in London...
Affable Mr. Byrnes then said that the Foreign Ministers had worked hard, that they deserved a reward, that there was turkey on the sideboard. Mr. Molotov made a joke: he said that Turkey was not on the agenda. In view of "The Hammer's" new reasonableness, the least the others could do was to laugh heartily and politely...
...civilian doctors to tell them how to fake illness. But he also found "psychopathic personalities," and among the toughest outfits: in North Africa soldiers in a crack airborne division took pot shots at Arabs to test their marksmanship, tossed hand grenades among their own men as a practical joke...
...been made in the sports columns of the nation of the appearance for the first time on a Yale varsity eleven of a Negro player and of the number of men on both teams whose names are not Anglo-Saxon. Such an occurrence has a significance that makes any joke or tolerant smile on the subject seem jejeune and slightly sour. For the social flux which is going on in both schools and which is symbolized by the change in make-up of their football teams is packed tight with meaning and significance. Far from being a cause for misplaced...
...solar photography which requires a clear, dry, rarefied atmosphere. Weather at the station is very severe with snow from October to June; and snow storms, fierce winds and freezing temperatures can be expected almost any day of the year. The summer is so short that there is a local joke about the miner who missed the entire summer by working "both days...