Word: joking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...biography of the American income taxpayer is a story of surprises-and the biggest surprise may be still to come. It can be viewed as a victory of human progress or as a bitter historical joke-the joke being that when the American income tax began, the mass of American voters thought they were taking a swing at a fellow named Pierpont or Cornelius. The blow, in full and crushing measure, now lands each March 15 on the chin of a fellow named John...
...world was a bad joke to Shaw and he made it a worse one. This was to make people laff themselves different...
...amazing fact, indeed, much more disturbing, per se, than the "cross-burning" itself. The latter incident, as it turns out was nothing but a practical joke, although of a very poor taste. It seems that the best warning or punishment against that kind of prank should have been the sort of spanking that parents would give to children caught playing with matches near a barrel of gun powder, i.e., a good old spanking, moral if not physical. In the end, that what the boys...
...finally changed course and-began to face the facts. In a somber speech to the nation he proclaimed a program of "inflexible austerity," of sacrifice, of less food and more work. For the famed Republic of Beef, the meatless day announced four weeks ago had seemed almost like a joke in poor taste. Now Peron decreed two meatless days each week, and to make the rule stick, he ordered butcher shops to shut down. Packing plants will also close one day a week, and on another day process meat for export only...
...people who maintain (in solemn earnest-not in joke...