Word: joking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Amid all the record setting and first place finishes, the Crimson swimmers found time to joke and cheer, showing some relief from the tension which had surrounded the team after its surprising loss to Princeton and during its subsequent win over highly favored Indiana...
...share responsibility for the financial solvency of their institutions. They refuse to make realistic projections about the future of higher education, based on the financial problems facing them. This refusal to contribute in an effective way to solving critical problems reduces their insistence on greater input to a joke, she says. Parker may have overreacted to their short-sightedness, though, by failing to solicit adequate faculty input for her Futures Report. One feels that she has constructed an elaborate excuse for here behavior, while making a fairly valid point about the ineffectiveness of faculty committees...
...frustrating periods, they were visited in their dressing room by the Soviet team captain, who urged them to take oxygen. With Roger Christian of Minnesota firing in three goals (he scored four on the day), the Americans roared back in the final period to win, 9-4. "The big joke," McCartan recalls, "was that the guys who didn't take the oxygen were the ones who scored the goals...
...stardom while on the club circuit might still work if he hadn't taken the jack-of-all-trades route. But Steve the Screenwriter insisted of confronting film, while the Comedian must have observed in silent protest. The Screenwriter concocted an hour-and-a-half-long one-minute joke, and he undoubtedly ended up with the last and perhaps only laugh--the moviegoer certainly doesn...
...that the money is not tied up." Translation: Spending it to cut the budget deficit would be best, but shoveling out the money on almost anything will do. That sort of attitude, which treats the levy as a windfall bonanza for politicians, makes a cruel joke of the tax. If the proceeds are not devoted to helping the U.S. out of its energy bind, then the nation would be better off with no such...