Word: joking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Territory of Alaska this year was probably the only place on earth where a platform orator could get a laugh with the well-worn opening: "Ladies and Gentlemen.'' On Alaska's election day last week, this local joke proved to be on the Republican Party, which was turned out of power by a Democratic landslide...
Secretary of the Interior Douglas McKay was responsible for the joke. On an Alaskan inspection trip last summer, he found voters bitter about the Republican decision to press for Hawaiian but not for Alaskan statehood. Instead of mum bling weasel words, McKay publicly told statehood advocates that they were too belligerent in their approach to Congress and suggested that they "start acting like ladies and gentlemen." He resented charges that his department was trying to hold on to Alaska as an "empire." "I get sick and tired," he told an Anchorage audience, "of being kicked around...
Billy can prophesy, but, perhaps more important, he can also speak to the longing, hungry heart: "Oh, on the outside you put on a big front. You laugh and you joke and all the rest, but when you're alone, there it is-that void, that aching, that empty place. There is a questing; there is a hunger; there is a longing for something else in life; and you haven't found it yet and you want...
Preston Foster, as a surburban husband fed up with his wife, three children, and his wall-to-wall carpeting way of life, could not be more harried and sincere. By the end of the evening, however, his carpet fixation has become only an intra-mural joke...
...Haiti, was politely detained overnight, next morning took off for Havana for a few days' nightclubbing and the chance to bemuse reporters with his story. The heart of the matter, explained famed Roman Catholic Convert Greene: 31 years ago, at 19, he and a friend decided, for a joke, to take control of the "Oxford branch" of the party. They joined but soon were found out and ousted. "They couldn't have picked on a person who is less a Communist," he said of his Puerto Rico detention. "It's all very silly...