Word: joking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seamy Mississippi River city of East St. Louis, Ill., the grim local joke is that the crime rate is finally starting to level off because there's not much left to steal. Block after city block is boarded up or burned out. Many buildings have been reduced to rubble as thieves cart away everything of value: bricks, aluminum siding, copper wire, even heavy cast-iron manhole covers from the potholed streets to be sold for scrap. The housing authority complains that aluminum downspouts are swiped from its buildings within hours of installation. Trash-strewn vacant lots along the river stand...
After the election, the two Republicans were joined by a new influx of Harvard scholars--this despite the widely circulated joke that when the bus came to Harvard Square last January to transport academics to the capital the scholars would find only a jeep...
Whether on the council or with his own work, Lee has always had a reputation for being on top of things. "He's probably one of the most informed people I know," Voll says. "His roommates used to joke that they knew about current events only because Ken would read the newspaper out loud...
...more than a joke for him when he proposes renaming Harvard Square "Piazza Leprechauno." And he has a deadly serious point in mind when he suggests that Harvard should secede from the rest of Cambridge...
...hard to gauge how seriously people took the module," says first-year student Jillian K. Cowan. "I think it has become, sadly, a little bit of a joke. These things have to be taken seriously; but there are a lot of chip shots, and I don't know how to prevent that from happening...