Word: joking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...winter light is already dim, and in a Manhattan cafe the blond girl is squirming in her seat, dying for a smoke. The cigarette machine is broken. "This is like a joke," she says, annoyed, and leaves her plate of eggs Benedict to bum a Marlboro from one of the other diners. Smoking happily at last, she gives a quick account of herself, sounding bored beyond her years. She dropped out of high school four years ago, at 15, and has no job and no firm idea of what she will do next. She likes to stay up until...
...Critics joke that the battleship is so vulnerable it should be renamed the U.S.S. Sitting Duck. The Navy insists that more than ten hits by nonnuclear Soviet cruise missiles would be required to put it out of action. Reagan, noting that the New Jersey had cost $326 million to demothball, called the ship "a shining example" of "the maximum cost-effective application of high technology to existing assets...
Ever see one of these before, mister? Yes, you. I'm talking to you, ma'am. Ever work one of these Commodores or Timex Sinclairs or Osborne Is or TRS-80 IIIs? How do you like them Apples? Just a joke, son. Good, clean fun. But you look so skeptical, like you're from Missouri, and I want to sell you one of these beauties, 'cause you need it and 'cause you want it, no matter what you say. Deep in your all-American heart (you are American, aren't you, pal?), you crave this little honey, which will count...
Suffering from a mild spot of dysentery and a major dose of skepticism, New Delhi Bureau Chief Dean Brelis went to a fetid garbage collectors' dumping ground near Cairo to meet a saintly missionary, Sister Emmanuelle. "A reporter from TIME?" she asked. "What kind of joke is this?" Then she spotted the sloppily bandaged cut hand of Brelis' driver...
...frame is better suited for the high jump or for running. In the weight throw, most of his opponents are at least 20 or 30 pounds heavier. Yet as soon as Quintero lets go of the ball, he makes it clear that he's no joke...