Word: kidding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...party vitality would be to keep quiet about it. If for reasons other than a determination to win in November my party is to be steamrollered into nominating Barry-something I don't believe is going to happen-then at the very least we ought not to kid ourselves about what we are doing...
...meeting had been called by Ronny Haan. Until last March he was an Eagle-Times carrier boy himself, and a good one. So were his kid brothers, Nolan, 16, and Kenneth, 13. Four years ago, Ronny won an all-expense trip to Colorado, but he chose the alternative prize of $150 in cash. He wanted to add the money to the personal savings account that he hoped would, one day, pay for college. The papers refused to pay. That $150 figure was a misprint, they said, and they offered Ronny Haan $18.75 instead. Ronny went on the trip...
...onetime carrier boy himself, Meany bucked the letter to the A.F.L.-C.I.O. regional office in Philadelphia. There was never any thought of organizing the boys. But, as Jim Gildea, Meany's assistant in Washington, said: "It simply was a touching letter. We all wanted to help the kid...
Back in the Pentagon, flustered brass described the Red gunners as lucky, hastened to explain that jets are terribly vulnerable anyway. "Hell," said one Navy man, "a kid standing at the end of the runway with a baseball bat can knock down a jet if he gets the ball into those turbine blades." But the Reds weren't using baseballs. Western military experts guessed that the U.S. planes had been hit by Soviet-designed ZPU2s-twin, 14.5 mm., heavy machine guns mounted on an armored car and operated from a fast-turning swivel seat. U.S. officials suspected that...
Discussing the changes in the House system since the Class of 1939's days at Harvard, Owen said that people "used to kid genially about gracious living," but that now the response "is closer to a Boris Karloff laugh...