Word: joking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...heavy artillery, bombs and rockets, at least 12 hours before his deadline. Thousands of panicked civilians trying to flee were caught in the cross fire. As the bombardment intensified, Lebed sped to Grozny to renew talks with Aslan Maskhadov, the Chechen military commander, calling the Russian offensive "a bad joke." He quickly "guaranteed" there would be "no storming of Grozny" and he would "see to it" that the Russian generals obeyed...
...After the nurse came in and fixed me up, I made a joke that from now on I would always check the footwear of the nurses to make sure they were wearing sneakers. I wouldn't want them to slip and fall on the way to the rescue. But the first time... trying to point with my head where the pop-off was...the feeling of helplessness. I've never been helpless...
...heck, the Olympic torch was burning out of a stylized McDonald's French fries carton). The opening ceremonies with pickup trucks and a good-ole-boy theme and the U.S.'s win-at-any-cost attitude all combined to make what was supposed to be the Centennial Olympics a joke. LUIGI PALAZZINI St. Leonard, Canada...
BILL MAHER AND CHRIS ROCK FOR COMEDY CENTRAL "We're not looking for scoops--we're looking for the best joke," says a Comedy Central publicist. Maher is doing a one-hour Politically Incorrect and anchors InDecision '96, while Rock is providing live reports from such places as Charlton Heston's party and the Mexican border...
...intern from Harvard. The other intern resented the fact that I'd gotten the best desk despite arriving later--and she was sure my school was the reason. At the first lunch hour, everyone asked what it was like to go to Harvard and then made some joke about how smart I must be. Everybody was friendly, but their discomfort was obvious. I began to wonder if my forehead had grown that big red tattoo on its own accord...