Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...notion that mosquitoes bite snakes made most scientists laugh. But not the University of Utah's imaginative Microbiologist Louis P. Gebhardt Jr. By following up a hunch, Gebhardt has just climaxed an eight-year effort to trace the life cycle of a virus that causes one form of deadly brain inflammation commonly known as sleeping sickness...
...outlanders love to laugh about how fouled up New York City is, - and rarely has the laughter been louder than during last January's transit strike. Since then a lot of cities across the nation have discovered that strikes by public employees-which Franklin D. Roosevelt once described as "unthinkable and intolerable"-are no laughing matter...
...pilots in Viet Nam-like the airmen in the three other wars Americans have fought this century-laugh off the dangers they face each day in enemy skies. Yet as Hanoi intensifies its flak and missile defenses, they realize all too well the likelihood of death or capture and extend a special kind of respect to those who have eluded both. Into the flyer's pantheon of heroes last week went two young Navy lieutenants. One-whose name the Pentagon withheld to protect other prisoners who might have helped him-escaped from a Laos-based prison camp. He spent...
What has Bacall learned to value in her lifetime? "Character and a sense of humor are the two things that will carry you through." Her own wryly self-deflating humor ("It takes the sting out of things that hurt") neatly defines the dividing line between generations. The young laugh at the way things seem; the middle-aged laugh at the way things are. What are her pleasures apart from husband, children, work and friends? "I'm an insane furniture and bibelot buyer. I love the ocean-it's one of the last free places on earth." Betty Bacall...
...first things Bowman did when he took over the paper was to start sending it to his old friends back at the U.P.I, office in Washington. "I bet they get a laugh out of my covering a sheep-shearing demonstration, but then I chuckle at them-look at what they're doing." As for the future, the headline on Bowman's first editorial still holds: HOME FOR GOOD...