Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...raised my hand to examine her abdomen," Dr. Gerisch reports in the Harper Hospital Bulletin, "she drew up her legs and started to laugh, even before I touched her. Her mother said their pediatrician had never been able to examine her abdomen. I said, 'Put your right hand there' (right upper quadrant). 'Does that tickle?' She said no. I said, 'Put your hand down there' (right lower quadrant). 'Does that tickle?' She said no. Then I placed my hand on top of her hand, and asked whether it tickled, and she said...
Alabama's Representative Kenneth A. Roberts drew a quick laugh when he told the House: "There will, no doubt, be some who say that a Congressman couldn't possibly have emphysema since he's so long-winded anyway." Then he added: "Seriously, Mr. Speaker, I invite you and my colleagues to visit the emphysema mobile unit...
...pace was fast and contrasts in facial reactions were so skillfully done that much of what seemed to be dry material in the written script became laugh-provoking wit on stage...
...Marcel Ophuls, lacks some of the phychological subtleties of the others, but is one of the most effective. Basically the simple story of a playboy who unexpectedly falls in love with a girl after she bears his child, Ophul's segment almost conveys a spirit of warmth. His lovers laugh, argue, have secrets, and do foolish things. They also kiss, which is an act rarely included in this film of love...
...voiced by U.S. feminists. Said Jane Hart, wife of Michigan Senator Philip Hart and leader in the fight to get women astronauts accepted by solidly misogynistic NASA: I'm tempted to go out to the barn and tell the story to my horse and listen to him laugh." Added Clare Boothe Luce: "We must stop trying to make paper dolls of our women." Anthropologist Margaret Mead commented acidly: "The Russians treat men and women interchangeably. We treat men and women differently...