Word: joking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...should not surprise the American public that Barry Goldwater is for God, Mother and country, and against sick jokes, off-color drama and pornography. The pity is that he does not realize that he himself is the author of the sickest joke of the year-asking us to make William Miller Vice President...
Promised Cash. It was a common joke among the summit delegates that every time the subject of money was raised, Sheik Abdullah as Salim as Sabah of oil-rich Kuwait left the horse shoe conference table for the men's room. But last week Sabah pledged $4,500,000 a year for five years to the Arab war chest, and Egypt, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Libya, Morocco and Yemen joined in, raising the total commitments to $14 million annually for the next five years...
...order in U.S. cities and morality in the country that Goldwater struck his main theme. "If the tone of America is not set by men in public service," he said, "it will be set, as unfortunately it is being set too often today, by the standards of the sick joke, the slick slogan, the off-color drama, and the pornographic book. It is on our streets that we see the final, terrible proof of a sickness which not all the social theories of a thousand social experiments has even begun to touch. Crime grows faster than population, while those...
Robert E. Wilson liked to joke that "I pose as a businessman when talking to scientists and as a scientist when talking to businessmen." The confusion was natural. Over the years Wilson was a research chemist, the chairman of the board of the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, a member of the Atomic Energy Commission, chairman of the American Oil Co. Occupational pigeonholers marked him down as an applied scientist - a term that in Wilson's case meant a complete man using his varied talents completely...
...your little practical joke of not showing two of Les Girls [Aug. 21], let's have the pictures of Dahlia Lavi and Catherine Spaak, or else I'll write to the S.P.C.T.S.L.G. (Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Some of Les Girls). S. KARNI Albuquerque...