Word: joking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...financial collapse, making up each year's deficits -some as high as $500,000 -with regular eleventh-hour fund appeals and occasional subventions from Buckley. Yet the staff of 45, which operates out of rumpled Manhattan offices whose walls are plastered with Reagan stickers, is beginning to joke about being "an Establishment organ...
...center of its most lucrative and characteristic activity, the boast and pride of the richest and grandest nation ever seen on earth--and here was a scene so dreadfully hideous, so intolerably bleak and forlorn that it reduced the whole aspiration of man to a macabre and depressing joke...
...fire, charred to a crisp in the freezer. Another victim, Tony Marzullo, attempted to salvage humor from tragedy by spraying a For Sale-Cheap sign on what used to be a freezer and propping it up on what used to be a front lawn. "You have to make a joke about it," he said a bit unconvincingly...
Another boon to ROTC is the fact that patriotism is big again among many students. At the University of Delaware, Cadet Peter Pfeiffer explains, "I thought the Army was a joke. It sounds corny, but now I want to serve my country. I've seen there are a lot of places where you can't do what you want." The program's resurgence is welcomed by the military: 70% of the Army's 98,000 officers came up through ROTC, as did about 30% of the Air Force's 359 generals...
Good Morning returns at 7:30 with another look at the headlines, and at 7:40, while Lunden is admiring the diamond-all 107 carats and $22 million of it-Hartman slips away to greet Begin. Hartman makes a rather weak joke about an ABC executive ordering him not to ask any tough questions, but Begin fails to understand. At 7:45 the two men sit down in front of the cameras. They talk for seven minutes, a near eternity by TV standards, and Hartman asks about the wounded Arab students. A regrettable incident, Begin replies. During a commercial break...