Word: jokingly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Storm Troopers surrounding the hall, he compelled the trio to support him. But Nazi euphoria was fleeting; Hitler's three "supporters" slipped away and denounced him. Police opened fire on the Nazis when they took to the streets the next day. Hitler was arrested. The putsch was a joke. But at his trial, Hitler beguiled the populace with orations for restoring German greatness. After serving only eight months of a five-year sentence, he emerged from jail with the first part of his seminal work of Nazism, Mein Kampf. The joke would have a devastating punch line. --By Howard Chua...
...tenth mortar round landed and Jones poured more .50 cal in to the berm on the right. Rather's Barbarian 4 fired its 120 mm - this one painted, "Baghdad's Nightmare." Again the strike was good. ("I finally busted my cherry," Sgt. Rather would joke later.) Gratified again, this time in the ditches in front of the bungalow -a few seconds later another mortar exploded plum on the road, 40 meters ahead of Barbarian 2. "The Iraqi's have zeroed their distance," said Mitchell, as all three tanks in Micthell's track made a sharp reverse. "Let's show...
...myopic. I ran a humiliating three for 11 in major categories as I picked them on the day of the nominations - no, please don't look. I even lost an impromptu bet, as the evening began, on how long Martin would wait on this pained occasion before cracking a joke. Correct answer: about 15 seconds. "I am really glad they cut back on the glitz," the he said, glancing back at the lavish stage set. "That'll send 'em a message...
...least successful tales are the one-joke pieces like "God," where the Almighty appears to a "painfully average" office drone in the guise of a fat man floating on air. The joke is that God appears as a fat man. Snooze-ville. A sharp editor would have axed it in favor of expanding some of the other stories that seem under-developed. "Cake," for example, about a disgruntled teacher who starts sharing urine-spiked cakes with his co-workers, strains to keep its head above the quicksand of the central sick joke. Only at the end does it start...
...someone is so egregiously in violation of 17 U.N. resolutions, the notion of international law or world opinion is a joke,” said Winthrop Professor of History Stephen A. Thernstrom...