Word: joking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Milt Yasunga, a friend of his, had a running joke between them throughout Ed's freshman year. Milt, a senior and captain of the wrestling team that year, was walking to class with Ed one day, and as they were walking through the Yard Ed noticed that they were walking very slowly. "Hey, you know just because you're blind doesn't mean that you can't walk," Ed recalls saying. Milt picked up the pace a little, but got his revenge on Ed later that year on a double date. While dining, Ed managed to spill some strawberry sauce...
...laughs when he tells stories like this--he likes to joke about himself with his friends. In fact, Ed can often be heard calling his best friend Tom Bixby a racist, since Tom once suggested that a mutual friend of theirs ask out a white girl whom Ed liked a lot. Rather than silently wondering why Tom didn't think he should ask the girl out, Ed teasingly accused him of being a racist and asked why he couldn't ask her out. The two are good friends and Ed chuckles quietly to himself when he introduces Tom as "This...
...friendly. Few Washington officials stayed further away from the press, or at the same time had more written about them. Enveloped in clouds of pipe smoke, he was equally adept at describing the Federal Reserve's operations in maddeningly vague language to congressional committees and relishing a joke in private with a friend. He had an unexpected love of partygoing, yet on one Halloween in 1971, when a Virginia host asked guests to arrive in costume. Burns attended in his usual dark business suit. Says Charls Walker, then Under Secretary of the Treasury: "He came in costume, all right...
...chorus boy in Sydney, played everything from Restoration comedy to modern farce in Britain, Australia and on Broadway. "I've seen so much illness and suffering," he once said, "why inflict more? My job is to make people grin a bit and see the joke...
...film opens in London only this week, but the force is already there. Discothèques have been playing the music for months, and London papers don't look complete these days without a Star Wars cartoon, joke or picture. One daily, the Evening News, is even running a picture-studded serialization to boost circulation. The two giant theaters where the movie will play have already racked up $320,000 in advance ticket sales?more than three times the previous record. Said a theater spokesman: "It's easier to get knightedm than buy Star Wars tickets." "I've been in this...