Word: joking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...duty Hell's Angels and being the kind of woman who will help anyone, any time, no matter what he has done. "The night of the arrest," she says, "I was vacuuming and trying to get a splinter out of my toe. I thought it was a bad joke, people out side shouting, 'Open up! Federal agents.' This big crowd rushed in. They took my wedding pictures and they thought the rice was dope. They threatened I would never see my daughter again unless I turned state's witness. Would you like to see the cellar...
...sounded with ever greater frequency and urgency. Pollution in the celebrated body of water that was the cradle of Western civilization endangered those who make their home or living along its shores. Outbreaks of dysentery, viral hepatitis and typhoid have become common in some areas. Scientists in the know joke that to order oysters in a restaurant in Rome or Naples is to play "Italian roulette." And it is all happening in the world's most popular vacation playground: the Mediterranean, host to 100 million tourists a year...
...national level. It insists on maintaining Division I eligibility in most sports and aims to move up the division ranks in other sports, where fledging Crimson squads are not immediately eligible for top-flight status e.g., women's basketball, which, since 1976, has moved from being a pathetic joke, to the top of Division II in the AIAW, to frustrating inconsistency in Division...
...actually anticipate with pleasure. This image the rotund, British-born director shaped and nurtured almost as fussily as he did his films. In interviews he invariably doled out the same handful of childhood anecdotes and adult insights into himself, all reinforcing the notion of a person trying gamely to joke away a set of obsessions so common that anyone could identify with them?fear of heights, of closed spaces, of open spaces and, above all, of false accusation and/or arrest. Television, when he began appearing as host of a series of funny-scary stories that he supervised (but rarely directed...
...view of development consulting work expressed in the President's open letter would be mistaken in much of the world for a transparent pretext or a tasteless joke; some of the loudest laughs would come from Mr. Harberger's Latin American collaborators. Yet there are still many people in the United States (though perhaps not as many as in the 1950's) who, like Mr. Bok himself, honestly believe in this view. Among them--if one is to judge by HIID's descriptive literature--are the Institute's own staff...