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Word: laughingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gore countered with his own health care plan, deriding the cost of Bradley's as "way excessive," which drew a laugh from the crowd. Gore's presentation was often informal, as he engaged questioners in dialogue and told one "St. Peter at the gates of heaven" joke about health maintenance organizations...

Author: By David C. Newman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Crowd Rallies For Candidates | 10/28/1999 | See Source »

...Bradley probably elicited the debate's loudest laugh when he solemnly suggested that "the idiosyncratic characteristics of our grandparents" may have been due to Alzheimer's disease...

Author: By David C. Newman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Crowd Rallies For Candidates | 10/28/1999 | See Source »

...person behind the mask doesn't seem so healthy anymore. Can I laugh at Howard Stern and still maintain a semblance of moral probity? Do I have to admit that his alleged sexism, supposed racism and seeming classism are beyond the pale of what's acceptable? Is Howard really...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, | Title: Howard's End? | 10/26/1999 | See Source »

...makes the absurd seem reasonable, and makes you wonder why you laugh at ethnic jokes, sex jokes and religious jokes in the first place...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, | Title: Howard's End? | 10/26/1999 | See Source »

...certain defense mechanisms to protect ourselves from people who might want us to be something we were not. With Wilt, there was always a lot of bravado on the outside, but he was basically a bright, pretty shy guy with whom I could share a conversation and a good laugh. We could always be ourselves with each other. Once we were going head to head in the NBA, everyone wanted to make it seem as though Wilt and I were enemies. That was far from reality. The older we got, the more we liked each other. Through the years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eulogy: WILT CHAMBERLAIN | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

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