Word: joking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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McMath made mu:h of what he was going to do for Arkansas in the way of schools, roads and public works. It was good campaign talk in a state that runs 47th in many measurements of standards of living. Arkansawyers have a wry joke about it: "Thank God for Mississippi...
...ambassador's little diplomatic joke was not lost on Washingtonians. Since the current baseball season opened, the Washington Senators have brought up Conrado Marrero and Sandalio Consuegra from their Havana farm team of the Florida International League. The two pitchers have won nine games, helped raise the Senators to fifth place, three notches above their 1949 cellar position...
Walker is not interested in golf, polo or social functions, prefers hunting & fishing. He does not smoke, but takes an occasional drink and likes a joke if it is not complicated or highbrow...
...Father Ho' to the people and 'Uncle Ho' to the children. This offsets some of the harm the Communists have done themselves by overthrowing the cult of respect to our ancestors which we Tonkinese have inherited from Confucius. Sometimes Ho recites verse. Sometimes he cracks a joke. I remember once-in Annamite we use the same word for 'cholera' as for 'left'-we had an outbreak of cholera, and he told the minister of health: 'You had better get this under control or people will think we are favoring the left...
...kind of war that Louis Johnson had in mind when he said: "I want Joe Stalin to know that if he starts something at 4 o'clock in the morning the fighting power and strength of America will be on the job at 5 o'clock." The joke going around the Pentagon was: "Louis said we could lick the Russians-he didn't mean the North Koreans." In short, the U.S. was at least partly prepared for a thunderous Armageddon. It was not prepared at all for the North Koreans...