Word: jokes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still, Bright Center was nearly packed. And, yet, a displaced geek from Lamont Library might have felt right at home within its cool confines. Bright Center was as silent as the aftermath of a terrible joke...
Limited partner. Bob Dole likes to joke that he opposes a Dole-Dole ticket because "I don't want to be Vice President." But when asked what Elizabeth would do as First Lady, he describes a more traditional role, like championing the cause of "abused children." Such presumption rankles Mrs. Dole, who says she would explore the "universe of options." The message: she will decide...
Dole's main challenge now, as it has been for years, is to keep his dark side under control. Aides joke about his demeanor. Playing off Doonesbury's conceit that George Bush has an invisible "evil twin" Skippy, Dole staffers joke that their candidate has an invisible "happy" twin. Even after Dole knew he had won Iowa, he was slow to celebrate. When he finally accepted his victory, breaking into a genuine smile, Iowa voters must have got a special lift, having made this sad man happy for a moment. Before the week was out, the happy twin had again...
...joke that the H in Stanley H. Kaplan stands for preparation. No, I never dreamed that this aside would constitute the sum and substance of my response to the survey, as reported by Mr. David P. Greene. In the interest of fair play on a genuinely important issue, I hope you'll allow me to review for your readers the three major points I raised during the interview...
...letter to The Crimson, Spitzer said when she was in college she telephoned a fake bomb threat "as a joke in honor of Guy Fawkes' Day." But she said jokes can get out of hand. Because of the missing four-foot-high gate, her dog escaped Sunday morning and was almost hit by a car, she said in the letter...