Word: joking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...There were occasional unscripted moments of relief. At Indiana University, Secretary of State Dean Rusk kept his customary cool as he faced a student audience speckled with hecklers shouting "Murderer!," "Fascist!," "Lies!" and "Hell no, we won't go!" Rusk at first shrugged off the heckling with a joke: "Thank you for letting me be your Halloween guest. But after a student yelled, "You invited yourself," the urbane Georgian grew grim. "Let's be clear about one thing, and I'll be as gentle as I can," he said. "I am prepared to be your guest...
...Have you heard the latest? They arrested a man who was accused of making up jokes. They brought him to Pattakos. -- Are you the man who started that joke about the old men sitting on the park bench? -- Yes, my general. -- Did you start the joke about the four meatballs, one of which was a microphone? -- Yes, my general. -- Did you tell the story about the dog who went to Italy so that he could bark freely? -- Yes, my general. -- And why did you do all that? Don't you know this government enjoys the support of 98 per cent...
...original co-author of "Jack Benny's most famous joke" (with Collaborator Jack Tackaberry), I must tell you that I don't resent them stealing the joke so much as doing it badly...
...hard at the collection of imaginary campaign buttons that appeared inside. But attention kept returning to the cover team. Was this an endorsement of a Rockefeller-Reagan ticket? No, the story made clear that it wasn't. Who was up and who was down? That question sent a joke running through the Independence. Reagan, it was said, had taken to looking at the cover upside down so that he would be top man on the ticket...
...really knew if the vigil was going to come off. There was a good deal of speculation about what kind of people had showed up and how they would react under stress. Spiegel was not pleased with the hippies and was afraid that they would make a joke out of the confrontation. "The authorities really know what they're doing," Spiegel explained. "And they know that it's easier to control a crowd if there are a lot of small bands. All they have to do is put the Fugs on a truck and then make sure that they...