Word: joking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...joke, yuk, yuk. The boy needed a little publicity, and we were just giving him a hand. So said the three defendants who were accused of kidnaping Frank Sinatra Jr. Said the jury, after only 6 hrs. 53 min. of deliberation: guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty. Six counts for two, five for the other, and the judge was obviously prepared for the verdict. One of the kidnapers managed to wangle a delay in sentencing, but the other two got the book and the bibliography both: life imprisonment, plus 75 years...
...York World's Fair. Such critics, said Robert Moses, 75, offhandedly plucking a barb from the bulrushes, wonder why there is no exhibit from such as "the Sultan of Kuwait with his bottomless oil, Cadillacs, harems, heat, sand flies and camel dung." That kind of joke is as old as Moses, but tiny Kuwait was not amused. "Grossly unfactual references," said Talat Al-Ghoussein, Kuwait's Ambassador to the U.S., in a stiff note to the Fair president. Oil there is, to be sure. But as an educated man, Mr. Moses should know that "a) Kuwait does...
Call It Off? His props in place, Baker nodded to some of his old employers-members of the Senate Rules Committee-who sat facing him. He also had a little joke with reporters, whom he had been assiduously avoiding. "Why don't you fellows call this whole thing off," he stage-whispered to the nearby press table, "so we can all get a rest...
...Please don't joke about the Beatles. Encourage them! As a music teacher and composer of children's music, I like to see anyone become successful in the music field whether he's a Beethoven or a Presley. We need musical expression! So I say hurrah for the Beatles...
Mexico's Adolfo Lopez Mateos looked up at President Johnson - all 6 ft. 3 in. of him. Then he grinned and said: "If I had remembered you were so tall, I would have brought my high heels." The easygoing joke set a relaxed tone for Johnson's first official meeting with a Latin American chief of state...