Word: joking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...group of escorting Iowa politicians, Ike told one of his rare jokes. It seems that there was a little boy who lived hard by the missile test center at Cape Canaveral and was asked by his teacher if he could count. He replied, "Oh yes-nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one, nuts." Ike laughed loudly at his own joke...
...longer than British Columbians care to admit, trapping, timber and gold were enough to satisfy most of the immigrants. As late as 1939, the province had only two inhabitants per square mile of territory. The road system was primitive, the railroads-except for the transcontinental lines-a hoary joke. "You've got the scenery, you've got the timber," went an old refrain, "but I'm going East where the money...
...Political parties have taken to assembling private armies, and they objected when the government tried to halt them. Cabinets have changed so often that it became a Karachi joke that a minister had to fill his pockets in six months because that was all the time he was going to have...
...make up Noel Coward's Tonight at 8:30. They did well with Ways and Means, a bedroom comedy complete with burglar. But why did they omit the final line? Without it, the end fell flat. Hands Across the Sea is a plotless bit of mayhem, a three-minute joke extended to thirty. Shadow Play is a confused, stylized soap opera about a marriage on the rocks. It showed that the two stars ought not to sing in public; but it did provide a good final examination for the lighting technicians and stagehands...
...degree in mechanical engineering at the University of Michigan, Gordon joined G.M.'s Cadillac division as a laboratory technician. By 1946 he had become Cadillac's general manager, had also helped develop the gas-saving high-compression engine that boosted sales and laid to rest an old joke about the gas-eating Caddy.† Gordon likes to test his own products himself. Once, during an argument with another G.M. executive in Colorado, where the corporation has a test track, he hustled out of his hotel at 2 a.m. and test-drove a Cadillac up Pikes Peak to settle...