Word: joking
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...Civil War, there was a running joke about how most soldiers were old enough to shoot, but too young to vote," Cannon said. "That sentiment remained alive for another century before the Vietnam War, an unpopular and unsuccessful war that used young draftees as soldiers, created the perfect storm for the 26th Amendment...
...Cheney campaign. An absolute falsehood, he maintains, along with the claim that he sometimes gets nosebleeds when he gets angry, like stigmata of his temper. The nosebleeds, he says, just happen sometimes, as they would for anybody else. When McCain calls him "Sergeant Schmidt," the candidate is making a joke on a couple of different levels...
...school, he said, he was the class clown. "I could never do the plot or the character descriptions. But if I could add to something with a joke, it would work.... If it seems funny to me to make a side remark while I'm discussing a serious subject - simply because of the sound of the words, or the sound of the thought - I think it's legitimate." He was briefly at Berkeley, then transferred to Stanford, where he took a drawing class. In his early 20s he went to Washington, D.C., where Leslie had a practice. There Manny took...
...fact that some cheering squads lack even these rudimentary precautions is pretty distressing. But that's not even the worst part, according to Archie. "No one has to abide by any of these rules," she says of the push for more safety precautions. "It's a joke...
...world market. (Iraq, as a whole, imports roughly a fifth of its oil.) "It's a problem," says port manager Hussein Hamid al-Maliki, who's working on building another jetty to up the inflow still further. "Iraq bringing benzene and gasoline from outside? It's a joke...