Word: joking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...called him "Tom Cat," she explains coyly, because "he earned it." He called her "Colonel," she says, "because sometimes I get a little bossy. It was just a joke." More serious is the fact that "Tom Cat," or Thomas Riha, 40, associate professor of Russian history at the University of Colorado, has been missing since March. Only the "Colonel"-Mrs. Galya Tannenbaum, a prison alumna with a knack for forgery and a yen for mystery-claims to have seen him since...
...made a place for himself. A late-afternoon talk show blared from the TV set high above the drinkers. Soon the Whitney's crowd began to notice that Breslin was in their midst. A man wearing an MBTA uniform told him that the Mafia was not a joke, Breslin scowled. Another man asked him if he thought football was crooked. "I hope so," he answered. "Who wants everything a hundred per cent?" Then Breslin turned away from his fans for good and drank the first of many beers...
Nobody in Egypt, and obviously not Nasser, seems to believe such figures. When Nasser announced last spring that 60% of the Bar-Lev line had been destroyed, he carefully included the phrase, "General Fawzi tells me." A current joke in Cairo goes: "If it took us nine months to destroy 60% of the Bar-Lev line, how long will it take us to destroy the remaining...
...like every good jiver, he also has a deep streak of charm, and so does Author Brown. Taking the reader into his confidence in an extraordinary postscript, Brown suggests that the whole book is a jiver's joke. George may be a caricature of the white man's mythical black, the hustling swordsman who alone can bring true satiety to a woman. On the other hand, Brown addresses George in the postscript, too, saying: "You think that your acts have been lies, but you need to realize that your creator is not some white man, but a black...
...Joke...