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Word: laugh (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...replied: "I could throttle my mother for having given birth to a clever son. I wish I were like other Arsolians who are ready to go down before your force. I cannot. I see things as they are. My fire won't let me sleep nor eat nor laugh till I see justice done." When Alimonti returned to Arsoli he believed that he had won his point. To the peasants crowding round him in the shadow of the castle, which overhangs the whole of Arsoli, he quietly announced that he thought something would be done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: THE WATER OF ARSOLI | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

...woman could." Well, why didn't she put all the lovers in the play? "Look," she replied, "I did the best I could in a couple of hours' entertainment. That many men would just clutter up the stage." The judge had to warn the audience not to laugh or applaud. Mae gave the rest of the cast an approving eye, told them: "You're doin' all right. The first readin' was terrific...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Sep. 6, 1948 | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

Dr.William Frederick Koch pronounces his name to rhyme with joke. His patients have found very little to laugh at in his practice-which is bluntly described by the Journal of the American Medical Association as "Koch's cancer quackery"-though the families of his patients have often seen the point, too late. For years the federal Food & Drug Administration has had a suspicious eye on Dr. Koch. But last week he was still doing business at the same old stand: his "Koch Foundation," an old brownstone house on Detroit's East Jackson Street. And Dr. Koch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Koch Method | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

...Washington showings of The Senator Was Indiscreet, Government bigwigs got a laugh out of the senator's proclaiming himself "Against inflation, against deflation, for flation." Last week, nobody was laughing over the Administration's meandering in the no man's land of flation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ECONOMY: Flation | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

...Makes me laugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 2, 1948 | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

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