Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even without such futuristic paraphernalia, city traffic in most places is moving better than it ever has. Driving time from one distant suburb into downtown Houston averaged 26.7 minutes during peak hours in 1960, now takes just 17.7 minutes. Los Angeles has a last laugh too: in 1957 a survey showed that peak-hour speeds on all freeways and streets averaged 24 m.p.h.; last year the average was up to 31 m.p.h.-not grand prix, but better than most mass transit...
...Joan that he said was "comparable to the peach Melba, the tribute to that other Australian soprano, Dame Nellie Melba." The manager fell to his knees on the sidewalk, kissed Joan's hand and begged her to return. She went back after some hesitation, then tried to laugh away the incident by mimicking orangutans shelling peanuts at the zoo. Richard was still sullen...
...traditions of British politics, Edward Heath has no business being where he is today. Some Tory leaders did not go to Eton, but none went to a grammar school on a scholarship, as did the burly Kentishman with the rumbling laugh and the steely blue eyes. Some were born untitled, but none the son of a carpenter, like Ted Heath. Some Tories were chosen leader at an earlier age, but none since Disraeli in 1849 at the age of 45, a mere four years younger than Heath today. By all the odds of British politics, Edward Richard George Heath will...
...They stuffed the note into a recently emptied bourbon bottle and dropped it offshore near Lynda's camp. "We knew their camp was dry," recalls Toni. "One of the National Geographic photographers had been around to bum a drink, and we thought we'd give them a laugh. We never thought she'd come over...
...more grammatical than his old man, but that is all. He too is a prisoner, trapped by circumstance and surrounded by the De Vries wit, which leaks out all over. And why does it? Because, in extremis, scalped and trussed, there is only one thing to do. Laugh...