Word: joking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...epitome of the non-sequitur gag, the elephant joke is the shaggy dog sto ry's direct descendant. Secretaries giggle over them, teen-agers torture their parents with them, scientists - laughing - regard them as an escape from an overlogical and overmechanical world...
...reaction to the news that I was charged with assault with intent to murder was a mixture of fear and incredulity, and later laughter. I threw a brick? I will be indicted and probably convicted on a felony, with a term of two to ten years? What a joke? I then had the choice of sacrificing the principles which brought me down here: non-cooperation with the whites, except on our own terms; non-violence (I would have had to plead guilty to throwing a brick); complete reliance on SNCC and its resources. And, since our attorney, C.B. King...
...always been frightening to write on any card that you happen to want book ALA 1952.293.2, but the new cards added insult to injury. As if the whole thing were a big in-group joke, a little box in the lower right-hand corner of the card instructed DO NOT WRITE BELOW, and followed this command with an enigmatic...
...only sign of life behind the massive, cream-colored walls of Dom Priemov were the boots of a Soviet soldier, which protruded beneath the spiked iron gates when he opened a peephole to scrutinize an arriving automobile. For the first time, Russians were willing to talk and even to joke about the Sino-Soviet conflict. One crack making the rounds in Moscow suggested that the way to solve the whole thing was for Mao Tse-tung and Charles de Gaulle to conclude an alliance, thus letting the two troublemakers take care of each other...
...TIME, May 17). In a rare joke with his audience, Solal risked a Franco-American pun last year by composing a parody of his own music and calling it Mystère Solal...