Word: joking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lead to suicide attempts-especially excessive daydreaming, sudden drops in grades, and social withdrawal from teachers and class mates. Dr. Hoff gave one final warning: teachers must not underestimate the seriousness of children who use suicide threats as a form of blackmail. "They do not do it for a joke," he said, "but because they are in need of something...
...Final Test. A British joke about cricket, well told; with Robert Morley (TIME...
...entries" in the original of the plush Mt. Auburn street apartments, there were cries of "stigma, stigma." But now, the revolution seems complete. National Scholars open their mail where probationary students once trod; football players use the elevator that hauled the scions of the Gold Coast; average students joke about the resplendence that was, and the stigma that is gone...
...House passed, by a rousing 339-to-80 vote, the massive tax-reform bill (TIME, Jan. 25 et seq.) of New York's Representative Dan Reed, chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee. It went to the Senate, where Republican leadership has been a sorry joke. It was generally conceded that the Senate would vote to raise tax exemptions...
...Final Test. A British joke about cricket, well told; with Robert Morley (TIME...