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Word: joking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ronnie Perry has been gone for two years, and Holy Cross is beginning to mind losing football teams. No longer is it assured of beating arch-rivals Boston College and Providence College in every sport Ronnie Perry played. They are beginning to joke about the Purple and White again, and Crusaders aren't much on humor...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Holy Wars | 9/26/1981 | See Source »

...astonishing encounter has considerably shortened Arshad's culture gap. "I was looking at a sign-up sheet for co-ed soft-ball, he remembers, "and saw 'A. Zakaria' written in. So I thought, 'What is this, some kind of joke,' because I hadn't signed up for co-ed softball. But then I looked in the face-book, and there was a picture of Aamir Zakaria. I finally met him at the ice-cream bash--It turns out that he's my first cousin. I never knew he was coming to Harvard--I'd never even...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: Welcome to Camp Harvard | 9/24/1981 | See Source »

...shrugs. "There's alot of intolerance I didn't expect. When everyone got the brochure in their registration packet that said, 'Someone you care about may be gay,' that was the biggest joke around. Not that there's anything wrong with being conservative--it's very difficult to have interesting discussions if everyone agrees with you. But I was a little disappointed...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: Welcome to Camp Harvard | 9/24/1981 | See Source »

Though it seemed to be an all-American joke at the time (1975), the pictures I have in my photo album of me on a stuffed bucking bronco and my friend with his arm around the wooden cowboy go to prove that "corny" Wall Drug may be just the thing that memories are made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 21, 1981 | 9/21/1981 | See Source »

...furnished a luxury apartment on Chicago's Gold Coast. She now divides her time between a $61,000 condominium in Boca Raton and a $500-a-month apartment in St. Louis. Informed of the newspaper's charges against her last week, Wilson called them "a vicious joke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: God and Mammon in Chicago | 9/21/1981 | See Source »

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