Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stayed home while Lady Bird joined 6,000 Washington-area poor kids at a performance of the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus, where she sat between a little Negro girl and a little white girl, matched wits-and laugh lines-with a clown...
...hyperactive pedant: he charmed others as the most rewarding friend of their lives. He was insatiably curious; he knew everyone, read everything. He talked incessantly -warm, wise, witty words about everything under the sun. Dean Acheson said of him: "One needs to see, to hear-particularly to hear his laugh, his general noisiness-to realize what an obstreperous person this man is, to have one's arm numbed by his viselike grip just above one's elbow, to feel the intensity of his nervous energy. Above all, one needs years of experience to know the depth...
...work, a real estate developer, Max Rayne, had put up $700,000, and the tax-supported National Gallery and the Crown had kicked in the rest. British Art Critic Douglas Cooper carped that it was "an inordinate amount of the taxpayers' money." He wrote: "I can only laugh at the gullibility of those who are so blinded by shame and the magic of a name that they cannot recognize a most undesirable failure...
Though racial prejudice is not one of the easiest table-pounding topics to laugh at, Bruce Jay Friedman made it appallingly funny two years ago in his memorable first novel, Stern. The book's pathetic hero is a middle-class urban Jew with round shoulders and "pale spreading hips," who moves his sexy wife and lonely child out to the suburbs...
...because it was weak, you responded with a full column, page one, lead article. You hoped that this last-minute publicity would foil the HCUA, but it was not enough. However, an assist from the freshmen, whom both you and the HCUA had forgotten, brought victory and you could laugh. "The HCUA could not even abolish itself...