Word: joking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spite of all that, I'm afraid I can no longer back Mr. Reagan. I could forgive him for his quip about Martin Luther King and his joke about bombing the Russians. I could forget that this is the man who promised to balance our budget. I could still rally behind him, even though he tried to cut my college aid, broke Salt II and fell asleep during cabinet meetings...
...American literary studies could be recalled for a defective platitude is a contingency that would appeal to Playwright Eugene Ionesco. A major contributor to the theater of the absurd (he prefers the term "theater of derision"), Ionesco reviews the influence of surrealists and dadaists without missing the historical joke: "They all wanted to destroy culture . . . and now they're part of our heritage." Arthur Koestler, a leading intellectual and novelist of the '30s and '40s, sounds weary and detached. "I'm vice president of the Voluntary Euthanasia Society," says the author of Darkness at Noon. The following year...
...years in the crossroads town of Clones on the Fermanagh-Monaghan border. He is a Catholic married to a Protestant. Their home is near enough to the line to be supplied its telephone from Northern Ireland and its electricity from the Irish Republic. "It's a bloody joke, isn't it?" he said. Coming from where he does, a literal battleground, McGuigan would seem a good man through whom to try to understand fighting...
Depending on which version of the old joke you've heard, close only counts in horseshoes, hand-grenades or MX missiles...
Unfortunately, the National Collegiate Athletic Association has elected to make a joke...