Word: joking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...familiar voice, Vaccaro rolled over, saw Harry Truman grinning from ear to ear. He stared at the awful needle, suddenly realized he was the victim of a practical joke. Then he sighed with relief and got off the quote of the week: "Mr. President, I do not usually greet Presidents of the United States from this position...
...Stassenites were not perturbed by the fact that many in the U.S. thought of them as impractical zealots, or that Stassen's Gallup poll rating had sunk in the last 15 months from 34% to 15%. They listened with patient and slightly puzzled expressions to a question-&-answer joke which politicians of both parties were happily repeating among themselves...
...above all, slim hips. In pursuit of such lean, athletic elegance, women zipped themselves into elastic girdles, consigned themselves mercilessly to seven-day diets, rolling machines, long walks and meditation over calorie charts. At the same time, they luxuriated in what was known as "freedom of movement"; no joke tickled female audiences quite so much as references to corsets and the Victorian practice of lacing...
...Joke, Ma'am. This week, in a limited gesture of good will, Gromyko took time out from a busy week to answer, in part, a list of written questions. These facts about him were revealed...
...rarely smiles. At a dinner party, Mrs. Roger Lapham (wife of San Francisco's mayor) asked him: "What do you think of American women?" Gromyko's answer: "I am not impressed." The lady was about to turn her back on him when he explained: "Mrs. Lapham, it is a joke...