Word: joking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like Doaithan, the fort was decayed and rotting. The signs of siege and uselessness were everywhere: overgrown paths, cracked-mud earthworks and rusting barbed wire. The two-platoon Vietnamese garrisons had long been immobilized, their mission-protecting the countryside from Communists and collecting rice-a bitter joke. The Communists-barefoot guerrillas, not even regulars-had even burrowed deep into the outer fort defenses...
...street that day, he met Wilson, told him of the discovery and then disappeared. A few days later, investigation revealed that the stranger was an Arizona uranium miner who had staged his performance only as a practical joke...
...joke for Leroy Wilson. He and Holland set out for the area of the new find in Holland...
Actor Peck is cast as a jobless U.S. clerk who falls victim in London to a wonderfully impractical joke. Two rich British brothers have made a wager: one bets that a man with no other resources could live for a month on the credit he could cadge simply by flashing a legitimate million-pound note; the other bets that he would sooner or later have to cash the bill. Peck is picked, and told that if he succeeds he can name any job he wants...
...Final Test. A British joke about cricket, well told; with Robert Morley TIME...