Word: joking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...subject of Harry Truman's 1952 intentions came up again at his weekly press conference. The President wasn't saying, just acting deliberately mysterious. It has become an unprofitable line of inquiry and a stale joke, but both sides went through with...
...success when he was sent to Yugoslavia last year. His mission was to collect a debt ($226,000) owed to Canada for postwar relief. To his pleased surprise, Marshal Tito amiably agreed to pay back two-thirds of what Yugoslavia owed. He also wowed Sinclair with his coin-trick joke about Stalin...
...five-month series celebrating NBC's 25th year as a radio network. On the opening program, Veteran Announcer Ben Grauer interviewed Bandleader Vincent Lopez, whose orchestra was the first on the network air, and the recorded excerpts from the past quarter-century included a joke by Ed Wynn, the first news flash of Pearl Harbor, Franklin Roosevelt proclaiming the "rendezvous with destiny...
...some ways, the Soviet repatriation mission in Austria's U.S. zone was a joke. In three years of combing crowded Austrian D.P. camps, it had found only 106 Russians who wanted to return home, and about half of them were Russian D.P.s with jail records for criminal offenses who were ineligible to go anywhere else. The vast majority of the D.P.s wanted to stay west of the Iron Curtain...
...Geography. Yale's transformation into a true university had started under Angell's predecessor, Economist Arthur Twining Hadley, '76, Yale's Grand Old Man (of whom a colleague once said: "He thinks in Hebrew; reasons in Latin, spins you a joke in Greek"). Angell completed the transition. Suddenly, the cautious campus found itself with a brand-new engineering school, an observatory at Johannesburg, the first U.S. graduate school of nursing. With the millions that poured in, mainly from Philanthropists Edward S. Harkness and John W. Sterling, Yale got a whole new geography. Angell built...