Word: joking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...course of wisdom lies in reducing the impact which accidents of personality have upon the relations among nations." He deplores "making policy by phrase," usually writes statements and memos in tinder-dry language. Not that he is totally incapable of turning a wry phrase or cracking a joke. During the Cuban missile crisis, it was Rusk, after all, who commented: "We're standing eyeball to eyeball and I think the other fellow just blinked." Addressing 200 college-age members of the Senate Youth Forum on foreign-policy problems, he assured them: "If you think you're confused, take...
...According to a current joke, a G.I. in a Saigon hospital is explaining how he had been wounded. "Well," he says, "I was told that the way to tell a Viet Cong from a friendly Vietnamese is to yell 'To hell with Ho Chi Minh!' If he shoots, he's a Viet Cong. So I saw this fellow on the road and yelled, To hell with Ho Chi Minh!' and he yelled back, 'To hell with Lyndon Johnson!' We were shaking hands when a truck...
...Madrid the joke was that the farmers of Almeria were no longer growing tomatoes but, rather, mushrooms. Another yuk had it that residents of the Mediterranean coast near Almeria had renamed their region "Costa Boom." It was something to laugh about all right-a missing American H-bomb...
...Broderick. First Grade Detective Broderick, Shield No. 226, heard about the boast and went looking for Legs. "I understand you've been looking for me," growled Johnny as some of Legs's backup men started drifting away. "Ah, hell, Johnny, can't you take a joke?" asked a worried Legs. "Not from you, y'bum," replied Broderick as his left hook mashed Diamond into unconsciousness...
Their names are Brown, Smith and Jones. As the story begins, Brown, the narrator of this new Graham Greene novel, wonders whether names so common as to imply insignificance must not together hint of some bad joke. Could wild chance have united the three on a freighter bound for Haiti and in the improbable events that follow? The answer is no, and it comes from Greene. His contriving hand is visible throughout, alerting and perhaps warning the reader that there is nothing in it to support, or even to deserve, belief...