Word: jokingly
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...grisly years of 1973-74, a downturn driven not just by a sick economy but by disillusion over everything from Vietnam to Watergate. This too is a summer not of one scandal but of many-the Roman Catholic Church, and the FBI, and Major League ballplayers on steroids. Comedians joke that Arthur Andersen tries to cover up corruption by rotating accountants from diocese to diocese, that Enron and K Mart will merge so Martha Stewart can design the prison uniforms. In each case it is the mighty who have fallen. The church scandal was as much about complicit Cardinals...
...people in Spain—one of America’s NATO allies—hold these feelings, it is not difficult to imagine how people in other areas of the world feel about America. This last joke about America’s current hawkish government is being told on the streets of Madrid, but its echoes are heard across the globe...
HANKS: Just going there, win or lose, you're praying, please, keep me from doing something so stupid that it haunts me for the rest of my career. That's either falling down or making a joke that's not funny. Or trying to be serious and sounding sappy. If you can't handle that pressure...
...held at Guantanamo Bay. "First the Americans said they couldn't transfer evidence obtained outside U.S. territory," said the official. "Then they said because Guantanamo is a military base, it's the Defense Department's decision--and that the Defense Department (DOD) considers it top secret. It's a joke." Both the DOD and the CIA refused comment...
...Joseph's college, Darjeeling, we used to joke that the easiest job in the world was to be the football coach at St. Paul's, our traditional crosstown rivals. Their patented game plan was to hoof the ball in our general direction, hoping to catch our 'keeper unawares. All their coach had to do was point to our goal at the start of the game and say, "Shoot thataway." The tricky bit came at halftime, when he had to convince the dumb jocks that they now had to kick in the opposite direction! We, of course, played with dribbling skills...