Word: joking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jordan, the top White House aide, and Powell, the press secretary, dress as they please, ridicule pretense, joke incessantly, talk back to the boss, shun lunch at Sans Souci and rarely turn up at social functions; Jordan wears a black tie as if it were a noose. The pair are the wonder and dismay of Establishment Washington. They are country boys who have come so far, so fast, that the red clay of their native Georgia still clings, as it were, to their shoes, their accents and their lifestyles. They relish politics more for the pleasure than the power, more...
...well Jody did not go into the service. Says his mother: "I realize now that military life would have sent him up the wall. He's always been such a cluttered person. He constantly topped the list of those paying for lost library books." Powell learned to joke about his academy expulsion. "After getting kicked out for cheating," he says, "politics seemed like the next best thing...
...inoculated early in life, they are likely to be left unprotected because they no longer see doctors as frequently. Adds Dr. Colette Rasmussen of the Cook County, Ill., public health department: "Too often the disease is looked upon as a sickness all children once had, as a kind of joke." Unfortunately, measles is no laughing matter. While the overwhelming majority of victims recover in a week to ten days, some develop pneumonia or encephalitis. If the measles virus spreads to the brain, it can cause convulsions, coma and brain damage, and sometimes death...
They were, of course, the actions of a sublime con artist with a natural instinct for media hype. Ali has it all - humor, anger both real and feigned, a delicious imagination. He understands that the greatest con artists have always winkingly allowed the audience in on their joke. The Greatest is not a biography but another incident in a biography still to be written. As long as one appreciates that it is really the latest flurry in that blizzard-like snow job Ali has huffed and puffed to keep blowing for well over a decade, then one relaxes cheerfully into...
Mike told him most college parties involved role-playing, but this was worse than most. Tom nodded in understanding as though he were being apprenticed. Mike proposed they make a joke of it, and he outlined a plan to Tom. Tom agreed...