Word: joking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...planned this to torment me,'" a homosexual masseur protests. "He stood on the deck, holding a plastic lemon at elaborate arm's length. 'You couldn't possibly buy artificial lemon juice, someone left it here, it's a bad joke...
...share of three Ivy titles. The system is viable, provided you have material than can overpower the opposition. If you don't, the opposition needs only to plug the middle or cover the ends at the appropriate downs, and you lose. It had gotten to be a common joke that you only needed one Harvard game film to tell you what the Crimson was going to throw at you. And it didn't really matter what year the film was taken...
...badly need a modern plant such as the Kama River facility, which would turn out 150,000 huge diesel-driven trucks annually. They could also use an infusion of Western European skills to improve the engineering of their trucks, whose tendency to break down has long been a grim joke among the Russians...
...only in pairs or groups. At least one major newspaper, however, has offered a hand: the Miami Herald ran a story recently headed "Fifty Ways Men Can Start Helping Women." Among those methods: "Let a woman take the initiative in dating and sex if she wants to; don't joke about Women's Liberation ?it is a serious thing...
...making friends at frontiers. "We'd get to some border," said Nicholson, "and you could see that the bikes really blew the guards' minds. They'd ask questions. We'd rev up the motors for them, and we'd all laugh and joke." Even without motorcycles, Americans are the object of intense curiosity and admiration, particularly in the provinces. Almost everywhere, they meet friendliness from private citizens, as opposed to government functionaries. In one Rumanian village, a couple of residents broke into tears at the sight of a U.S. passport. The visitors are often astonished...