Word: joking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...establish ties for cooperation with all those who showed understanding for [North] Viet Nam during these terrible, decisive hours. In ministry files, partly evacuated to caves on high plateaus, are plans for the Viet Nam of tomorrow, "reunited by the Vietnamese alone," as Pham Van Dong puts it. Joke or political gesture, some people here claim: "The Premier is quite ready to organize a 'political tea party' with a President Nixon who has finally understood the wisdom of the seven points of the P.R.G. [Provisional Revolutionary Government]." Peking, Moscow, why not Hanoi...
...primary results began to accumulate. Columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak wrote repeatedly of Muskie's "remarkable popularity," though they also criticized the wisdom of his tactics. Said Evans last week: "No one took Humphrey seriously, God knows I didn't, and McGovern's was a joke candidacy. Novak and I both thought that despite the mistakes he made, Muskie was still a 90% probable winner...
...tell you a few things about this guy Milhouse. They used to call him Smokey, but it was all a joke, because he threw every junk pitch you'd ever heard of. Drop ball, knuckle ball, Mexican fork ball, and all that other stuff you pick up when you've been in the bush leagues for a long time. When you were least expecting it, Smokey would come in with this straight ball you were sure your grandmother could put out of the park, and he'd get the league's best hitters to bounce back...
...seemed to be Miami Beach, where the Democrats will caucus beginning July 10. An immediate problem was a Buick dealers' convention, slated for the August slot the Republicans were loath to change. Buick quickly agreed to move, and will likely end up in San Diego, where the prevailing joke round town is: Wouldn't you really rather have a Buick? Miami Beach officials were reluctant to offer the Republicans a bid, possibly because they thought they were simply being used as a lever to reduce Graham's price. Florida's perturbed Governor Reubin Askew met with...
...cover a play. Stewart Udall, then Secretary of the Interior, passed Sullivan on the aisle, and asked the perennial question, "Where's Barnes?" Retorted Sullivan, in what has become the classic second-stringer's revenge, "Where's Johnson?" Though this has an element of the private joke, Lacy and Rounds are so humanly right in their roles that they suggest similar foibles in any number of other men in other professions. The woman who casts delight on the evening is Carrie Nye. Too long absent from the New York stage, she confers not only her blonde good...