Word: joking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...comic strips, measles is a joke. In much of the world the disease is treated lightly, partly from ignorance, partly because it is an almost certain incident of growing up. But measles is, in fact, all too often a killer or the cause of mental crippling. Last week Harvard's famed Virologist John F. Enders and 18 research colleagues, scattered from Colorado to Yugoslavia, reported dramatic progress in efforts to make a safe and sure vaccine against measles...
...easy to sell to the domestic market. When it comes to competing abroad, noted The Economist, "the British nowadays have an old fogy's habit of treating the sometimes brash, brassy and rather fanatical export drives of some of their main competitors as a superior sort of a joke...
Father of two (each of whom has made him a grandfather), he belies his retired status as a Hopkins professor emeritus, keeps busy teaching, seeing children with difficulties, and writing. Unable to resist a little joke, Dr. Kanner says of his ophthalmologist son: "We're both in the 'I' business, only he spells it eye and I spell...
...eradicable touch of Texas backlands about him. When he is trying to persuade or cajole somebody, as he often is, he grabs an arm or shoulder in a bruising grip, and a hint of the carnival snake-oil seller shows in his voice. His fellow Senators joke about the lavish vanity of his tailoring and his baronial Senate office?but they respect him, too. Last June the non-partisan Congressional Quarterly polled Senators and Representatives on who they thought would be the Democratic Party's "strongest possible" presidential candidate; of the 220 members who replied, 54% named Lyndon Johnson, only...
...they swore would hold Premier Norman Manley's head if he blocked their way. In April, when raiding police found a cache of firearms and cement-packed conch shells (obviously intended as missiles) in a Ras Tafarian church, Jamaican authorities decided that the Rev. Claudius Henry was no joke. He was jailed on a charge of treason. Even with their leader in jail, violence broke out into the open last week...