Word: joking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...course, a grim, ironic joke in Russia that the vast hinterland conceals numberless prison camps, slave-labor projects, and an abysmally low standard of living among all but party people. These were experts in that kind of concealment, and they laughed appreciatively at Bulganin's easy reference to the "vast territories in which, if desired, one can conceal anything." But it was a guffaw all too reminiscent of Vishinsky's famous blunder ("I could hardly sleep all last night . . . because I kept laughing," said Vishinsky of U.S. peace proposals in 1951). Newsmen spread the story across the world...
...changed in Argentina since the bloody navy-led revolt of June 16 rocked Perón & Co. Members of opposition parties openly passed out propaganda leaflets on the streets. Jails are slowly regurgitating political prisoners. Argentines no longer glance over their shoulders before reciting an anti-Perón joke. Last week's Perón's press secretary announced that a shutdown Catholic newspaper, El Pueblo, may publish again, added that the authorities will no longer ban foreign magazines, no matter what they print about Argentina...
...this point, young love, Keystone-cop chases and a burlesque of the Army-McCarthy hearings threaten to run away with Author Toombs's little joke. He pads it out with jabs at bureaucratese ("It's going to take front-office to front-office noodling to get this concretized"), and spurts of sly wit ("Since it was only 8 a.m., it was too early to have a drink, so we were forced to eat on an empty stomach"). After a few more slapsticky twists of the plot, John Henry and Fairweather's friends triumph over Senator Ransom...
...Draft. It was Hammarskjold's rare combination of brilliance, discretion and modesty that first attracted the British and the French, who proposed him for Secretary-General. The-first rumors reached him in his Stockholm apartment one night in 1952, but thinking it was a joke, he replied: "Amused but not interested." Then came confirmation from the U.N. "It was like the draft," he says: looking back. "But an obligation can develop into a privilege, and it really...
...what a stinker you're going to be next year!" gloats the little boy in the cartoon, as he looks himself up in the child-care book. This is no joke to Author Whitman, who feels that, in living too much by the book and trying to fit himself into patterns, modern man has become a pretty frightening character...