Word: joking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...showing it, just the right amount, in public. L.B.J. had little public humor and in private leaned heavily on the set-piece joke ("There was this colored boy once up in front of this judge in Panola County...
...Senior Common Room dinner, and the master was talking about all sorts of things, all kinds of odds and ends, and he said that he heard the Senior Common Room had won because some ringer had played for the team that day. And I said as a joke. 'Oh, come on, tell them I used to play for the Yankees,' and that's how the rumor got started, I guess...
...least one Harvard official did find the pranks amusing. President Bok called The Blob "a stunning practical joke," adding, "I give them full credit...
Imperial Air: Soviets like to joke that one thing working against Grigori Romanov is his surname, the same as Russia's former royal family. Romanov, 59, is not laughing. After a meteoric rise to candidate membership in the Politburo in 1973 and full membership three years later, he appears to be going nowhere. Still, as First Secretary of the Leningrad Communist Party he cannot be completely counted out for the party's top office...
...might just as well have stayed at home. Sophomore year at the Stadium, with Harvard quarterback Brian Buckley chuckling musk-melons, proved to be a joke. There were no surprises: Yale was better; Yale won. The end of the game is something of a blur, but I do remember being on the field before the game was over. My intent was to protect the goal-posts from a fate similar to that which the Eli uprights had suffered the year before. "Fight fiercely, men," I cried, and headed into the fray in the end gone...