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Word: laughingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact, one of the most difficult aspects of my summer jobs has been making myself laugh at horrible jokes. A random assortment of suicide notes would be far more amusing than anything I have heard. Although the majority of them are so ethnically and sexually offensive that even printing them would touch off a series of riots, it is possible to convey a little bit of their essence...

Author: By Benjamin N. Smith, | Title: Special Duty | 9/23/1985 | See Source »

...stopped and buried it in the ditch. I might even have buried the skunk along with it." There are readers who will claim they saw that punch line coming a mile away. These people are almost certainly unaware of Patrick F. McManus or the monthly humor column, "The Last Laugh," that he writes for Outdoor Life. A great pity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bookends: Sep. 16, 1985 | 9/16/1985 | See Source »

...Better, perhaps, for the Warner siblings to wear their garlands lightly, or let them fall off, while their antics continue to provide not so innocent delight for another millennium or so of children. The rest of us can find our wicked frissons in Warner's cartoon art and laugh hysterically all the way to the museum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: For Heaven's Sake! Grown Men! | 9/9/1985 | See Source »

...about eleven, my dad came home and gathered us all in the kitchen. He held up a tiny little transistor he had brought home and said, "This is the future." I took the transistor from his hand, and I put it in my mouth. And I swallowed it. Dad laughed, then he didn't laugh; it got very tense. It was like the confrontation scene between Raymond Massey and James Dean in East of Eden. One of those moments when two worlds from diametrically opposed positions in the universe collide. It was as if I was saying, "That's your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Autobiography of Peter Pan | 7/15/1985 | See Source »

...toilet. Even if I tried to grab it and do something, it would have been total chaos, lots of people would have been killed. I just walked out and into the cockpit and said, 'Come here, will you? You left something in there.' You should have heard them laugh." In Beirut, Traugott was taken all over the city. Says he: "They took me out night after night, day after day. I was shown military complexes. I went to a funeral vigil in the middle of the night, down this alley, with a tank on each end of the alley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roach Races and Russian Roulette * | 7/15/1985 | See Source »

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