Word: jokingness
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Paul hung on for about five innings, munching his popcorn, glancing at me and my cousin furtively, cheering when the A's got a hit. Then, his cheers got less boisterous. Finally, he announced, "What the heck, I love the Indians. I was just joking."
Did Pandole believe him? "I hid them," he said, joking.
Suddenly, one of the sentences leaped out from the page and struck me right across my complacent face. "In a survey at Harvard five years ago 93 percent of male students said that if 'they had the chance and were sure they would not get caught, they would consider forcing...
But the habit of concentration is not a ski technique, it is a rock of Zurbriggen's character. In a hotel lobby or a team bus, when his eyes pass coolly over skiers with whom he has raced for ten years, it can be taken for the self-absorption of...
Gorbachev acknowledges that his antialcohol campaign is highly unpopular. He once told a group of writers that he was aware of "threats" as well as grumbling from the long lines of people queueing up to buy scarce and expensive vodka. One gag has a man at the end of one...