Word: joking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...audience. He. has kept them busy mailing him dirt to "help fill up San Francisco Bay," or sending in empty orange juice cans to be used in building a 60-foot antenna. Twenty-five bottle caps earned a listener an "I Dread Red" card, and a usable joke is repaid with an "I Write for CBS" certificate. The jokes are frequently such morbid items as the jingle about a railroad train hitting a girl named Lucy; "The track was juicy, the juice was Lucy." His fans are currently enrolling in an "I Listen to Red in Bed" club...
...article . . . about the sports-car race held at Bergstrom Air Force Base, Texas [TIME, April 20] was a shock and a joke to many airmen stationed here at Turner Air Force Base, Ga. Turner was the first base to sponsor such a race ... on Oct. 25, 1952 . . . The sole advantage gained was General LeMay's prestige. We of Turner Air Force Base feel bitter toward the project and can guarantee, when Turner has another race, the airmen will not support...
...find his feet frozen. Within minutes the Chinese had him marching again. The Chinese turned the prisoners over to the North Koreans. "The Koreans were worse than the Chinese," found Treffery. "They have no feeling for human beings. They'd stick our men with bayonets and laugh and joke about it." Eighty of 120 made it to Kanggye...
...Russian newspaper readers, Madame Molotov's attempt to make soap from frog fat was a surefire joke. So was her 1936 visit (as Olga Karpovskaya) to New York and Washington, where she lunched with Eleanor Roosevelt and announced that Soviet men had gone back to using toilet water. The Pearl was soon promoted to the Ministry of Food Industry, Division of Fish. Years later, having thoroughly proved her incompetence, she was fired by a rising young party boss named Georgy Malenkov. "The crux of the matter," Stalin is said to have remarked, "is that too many fish are swimming...
...being a good joke at Broadway's own expense, Room Service can only fire away as resolutely dizzy farce. But it is not really up to that, either: things are never sufficiently under control to seem to get uproariously out of hand...