Word: joking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they done it? Last week, resting in Anchorage, the four were almost too busy planning new assaults to answer. Said Sinclair: "We usually just joke, 'to get away from tidal waves.' You can't describe climbing to people. They don't have anything to compare it with...
...vast gulf between scientists and nonscientists is often a subject of jokes. But English Novelist Charles Percy Snow is no longer amused. Sir Charles is qualified to protest: he worked as a physicist long before he became Britain's most knowledgeable novelist of top-level science and politics (The Conscience of the Rich, Homecoming); he was knighted not for literature but for his work as chief organizer of scientists in the World War II Ministry of Labor; he is now a director of the English Electric Co. and scientific adviser to the British Civil Service Commission. "The degree...
...evenings the townsfolk strolled its length, bought melons and cherries from the peasants, sipped thick Turkish coffee. The town elders sat smoking in the middle of the bridge, looked with contentment on the Bosnian mountains ringing their valley, gravely discussed public matters. The young men came to sing and joke, to flirt with passing girls or lean dreaming on the parapet. On such soft nights, a man on the bridge felt as if he were on a magic swing: "He swung over the earth and the waters and flew in the skies, yet was firmly and surely linked with...
Political Lecture. Having put down the rank and file, Adenauer was ready to deal with Erhard himself. Already a bitter joke was circulating: Adenauer should get an honorary degree in medicine for being "able to break the spine of 270 Christian Democratic parliamentarians without spilling one drop of blood." Morning after Erhard's arrival, party go-betweens took him to the Palais Schaumburg to hear soothing words from Adenauer, accompanied by a brisk lecture on the mathematics of political survival. Adenauer conceded that Erhard, with the help of perhaps 30 or 40 Christian Democrats, might be able to collect...
...Orator, John B. White, could still joke on Class Day about problems which were all too soon to pass well beyond the laughing stage. Depression or no, the college years were, for the Class of 1934, truly the halcyon days compared with what lay before. As White put it, "So sails the Ship of 1934 into the Sea of Life. We have spent many happy hours smashing bottles over thy prow, proud ship, even going so far as to remove the figurehead and install a bottle-opener." The bottle-smashing was over, and as President Conant handed...