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Word: joking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Plaza assistant manager and the maitre d' to capture a center table, but the waiters studiously ignored their repeated cries for service, and the ladies were eventually forced to fall back. "This is the only kind of discrimination that's considered moral-or, if you will, a joke," fumed Mrs. Friedan. But she has not given up. She and the NOW girls have begun planning similar raids in Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People 1982: A History of This Section | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

Harvard Lampoon editor Andrew C. Pforzheimer '83-'84 yesterday called the joke "amusing and harmless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Phoney Phones | 10/4/1983 | See Source »

Pforzheimer, who said he invented the prank while sitting with a friend at Cahaly's, explained. "It was a day and half joke. Phones were going to be installed on Monday morning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Phoney Phones | 10/4/1983 | See Source »

...most Adams House residents, however, the joke didn't seem to last for more than ten minutes. The phony petition box, situated in Adams House Dining Hall, contained several amusing responses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Phoney Phones | 10/4/1983 | See Source »

Although most people soon realized the note was a prank. Reinier A. Cruz '84, who was working in the Adams House superintendent's office on Saturday, said he had to assure several students that it was a joke...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Phoney Phones | 10/4/1983 | See Source »

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