Word: joking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three men who slipped into his bedroom stuck knives in it." Occasionally he offers a bemused sociological insight: "Southern Italy is the same as the rest of the world. People stroke and polish machines while goats urinate in their houses." The trouble is that after a while the joke, like chewing gum on a bedpost, loses its flavor...
...A.F.L.-C.I.O. has supported so many boycotts by member unions against employers that last summer President George Meany made a little joke about it. A loyal unionist's ultimate treason, he said, would be to eat grapes while flying over West Virginia in a National Airlines plane burning Shell gasoline. At that time, for various reasons, unions were battling against National, Shell, the growers of California table grapes and the state of West Virginia. But the A.F.L.-C.I.O. had never organized a boycott on its own-until last week. Then, on the first day of the Christmas shopping season...
...joke: I put on a quiz-show contestant grin and burble "Golly, Hugh, I've never won anything before. "But I can't seriously cope with the fact that I look like a raffle ticket. albeit a choice one, to my own government...
...severe are the shortages that a standard joke in Rangoon, which averages 100 inches of rain a year, is that if the government decided to nationalize water, there would be a drought. Rice exports continue to decline, dropping from 1,800,000 tons in 1962 to an expected 600,000 tons this year...
...joke must still be maintained at all costs...