Word: jokingly
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...Have you tried to read Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth lately? Don't.) And when, in Germany and Italy, the street politics of the 1960s gave way to the urban terrorism of the 1970s, the idea of a decade of peace and love seemed a bitter joke. But it is not because of their faults that the ideas of the '60s have lost some salience. It is because of their success. Rudi Dutschke, the German '60s student leader, coined the phrase "the long march through the institutions" to define his generation's ambitions, and by the time...
...Nobel Prize have been swirling around Barry Marshall and J. Robin Warren as far back as 1997-at least in Western Australia, where the two scientists are local heroes, and where I was once a medical writer for the local newspaper in Perth, my hometown. As a joke, Marshall, a gastroenterologist, and Warren, a now-retired pathologist, had even taken to sharing a beer down by the Swan River in Perth every year when the Nobel for medicine was announced...
...know that the government will do anything to ensure a 'Yes' vote," said the commander, who did not give his name. "So the only way the Sunnis can make their point is to stay out of the process altogether. That would make the referendum a joke for the whole world...
...fullest, and realize that these four years are so unlike any other four in your life that you’d best “invest” in them to get a good “return.” That’s a little joke for the I-Bankers out there...
...comedian. With the president, I know that he would have to be nice to me, suck up to me even, because he has an image to maintain. He would be proper, corny, and charismatic and my responsibilities would include smiling, maintaining eye contact and possibly laughing at a joke...