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Word: joking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were still far from being in efficient mass production; RCA TV sets, for instance, were made by Egyptian workers from imported do-it-yourself kits at the rate of 200 a day, but only two or three locally produced cabinets were turned out daily. According to a typical Cairo joke, Nasser dies and goes to the Egyptian hell, but finds the place less terrifying than expected. Reason: because of a severe shortage of fuel, the oil does not boil often, the rack is always breaking down for lack of 20 spare parts, and the pitchforking devils-like true Egyptian civil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Egypt: After a Decade | 7/27/1962 | See Source »

...from Charlestown, is officially listed as a White House staff assistant-but that is only half the story. In the informal, easygoing atmosphere of the Kennedy Administration, the elfish, ebullient Powers, 49, plays a unique role as John Kennedy's constant companion, morale builder, tension lifter and joke teller. One reason for his value is that even amid the glitter of the nation's capital, he still remains a son of Charlestown. Says Dave casually: "It's the best White House I've ever worked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Administration: One of the Boys | 7/20/1962 | See Source »

...getting visitors to the President on time and in good humor. From his private office in the White House's East Wing or from the big reception desk in the West Wing, Dave may sally forth to relax the President with a political story or a new joke (Kennedy sometimes complains that there are not enough new ones) or conduct a White House tour for VIPs. He frequently dines with the President, has accompanied him overseas, swims with him almost daily in the White House swimming pool, where, says Dave, "all you've got to do is keep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Administration: One of the Boys | 7/20/1962 | See Source »

...conversion of Cissy Goforth is a bizarre jape, an eccentric and perhaps sophomoric joke. In the fall (if all goes as planned), Broadway audiences will be able to see for themselves whether they find it possible to pity, or to laugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Festivals: Milk Run | 7/20/1962 | See Source »

...success largely to a canny ability to ride the political tides. He started with one small retail oil outlet in 1911 and steadily expanded across Japan. Then he followed the invading Japanese army into China in the 19305, pushing out U.S. and British oil companies. It was a wry joke among Japanese soldiers that whenever they captured a Chinese town, the first Japanese civilians to arrive were the "comfort girls"-and an Idemitsu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Asia: Again the Rising Sun | 7/13/1962 | See Source »

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