Word: joking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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President W. Paul Tippett Jr. of American Motors Corp. used to joke that his company actually had a three-word name: "Ailing American Motors." Now Tippett and his colleagues are laughing for a different reason. AMC has pulled back from the brink yet again, chiefly by cutting its work force, consolidating its plants and concentrating on a few small cars and specialized vehicles...
...holds the current women's dead-lift record with 335 Ibs. Though some of her male colleagues at Gold's gave her a chilly reception, Meister hung tough. "I decided that I had to let them know this wasn't some kind of joke for me," she says, "so I dead-lifted 300 Ibs. three times. Since then it's been downhill...
...young "virgin people" are beginning to talk and act like all the Harvard classes before them. They're full of "piss 'n'vinegar." They want to change the world. They want to build and create a UTOPIA so the poor and the downtrodden will no longer suffer. What a joke! They come to Harvard with beautiful thoughts--and that is to help humanity--and they wind up sitting in a swivel chair in some big Corporation screwing the poor and the helpless...
...Senator in 1963 at the age of 30, almost inheriting the seat that had once been held by his brother Jack and then kept warm by a Kennedy lieutenant until Teddy reached the Senate's minimum legal age. ("If your name was Edward Moore your candidacy would be a joke," his defeated Democratic rival said bitterly during the 1962 primary campaign...
...several of the light-voting student precincts near Boston University and Northeastern, WBCN disc jockey Duane I. Glassock, running a write-in campaign as a joke to promote his radio show, may challenge the state senator for second place...