Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...loss to Dartmouth was the expected end to their careers for pretty much everyone—except the selection committee.“I was in my dorm, getting ready to study for finals and go about life as a student,” Cohen said with a laugh. “A guy who’d graduated said, ‘you guys made the playoffs.’ So I called my brother and he said, ‘I think we made the tournament.’”And as happy as the team...
...beliefs on things like abortion and gay rights. When they vote for Republicans, they are voting against both their economic interests and their social beliefs. So next time you’re wondering how poor people could be dumb enough to vote Republican, look into your own future and laugh. We have found the idiots, and they...
This story makes me laugh because it sounds so much like another story that has gotten a lot more play in the media and in campus political circles. Harvard students have no trouble accepting the idea that rural, God-fearing po’ folk have made some ridiculous error and voted for the party that makes their lives miserable. We look out over middle America and say, “Well, Buffy, I guess they’re just too dumb to vote Democrat. If only they realized that Republicans are using social issues to delude them, then they?...
...produce speech. He and others have expressed the anxiety they feel about trying to speak and failing. Jamie Burke, a 19-year-old high school senior from Syracuse, N.Y., puts it this way: "The fears that live in the silly-sounding voice made me feel like people would laugh...
...media for "ignoring" Colbert (true, aside from coverage in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and all the major wire services) but to argue that the relatively lackluster response Colbert received from his live audience was somehow empirically incorrect: He was funny, dammit, and if you didn't laugh, the only possible explanation is that you are an Administration lackey transcribing Scott McClellan's exact words with one hand and stabbing Joe Wilson's wife in the back with the other. At the media criticism forum on the Poynter Institute site, one correspondent channeled the audience?s reaction through...