Word: joking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four years ago, Marc startled his companions at Le Practic with a joke that seemed something less than funny. "It is my belief," he said, "that a man should not live to be more than 60. As you all know, I shall be 56 on Oct. 3. I have saved 4,000,000 francs, and I intend to spend it at a rate of 1,000,000 each year. I shall kill myself at the end of September 1953. On Oct. 1, I shall be buried." Marc's friends slapped him on the back and urged him to have...
...sincerely believe we are all extremely fortunate to have such a man as the boss of our atomic weapons program [Sept. 21] ... Our so-called security and civil defense systems...are still "a big joke" We must be "educated" to realize we're on the verge of complete destruction, the atomic clock is running out of time, and it's now or never!...My personal recommendation is that we...arm to the teeth with superbombs and attack the Russians first...
Favorite place--library; favorite joke--the Harvard football team; favorite pastime--philosophical discussions; favorite gripe--colleges with spirit...
...managed to be Panama's best President in years. Panamanians, accustomed to seeing the public treasury drained in one way or another by elected officials, now tell themselves incredulously that he is "really trying to do something for Panama." He raised income taxes, previously a joke, by 50% in the higher brackets-and forbade the government to do business with anyone who could not produce a tax receipt. Now he has tackled the delicate job of rewriting Panama's relationship to the U.S., whose flag flies over the Canal Zone...
...about up. Dr. Rock has his last joke about Fallon and Broom: "They are corpse-diviners. Or, as some have green fingers for gardening, so they have black fingers for death." Then the police, the trial, disgrace. Dr. Rock himself is saved from trial by influential colleagues who have had dealings with body snatchers themselves. But life in Edinburgh is hardly bearable for a man, how ever innocent, when the desperately poor sing in the streets...