Word: laughingstocks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...University of Miami men's basketball team--for years the laughingstock of both the city and the school--has stormed onto the national scene...
...University of Miami men's basketball team-for years the laughingstock of both the city and the school-has stormed onto the national scene...
...flee to relief in humor, but it is a bitter, jeering kind. Clinton will remain a laughingstock of e-mail and late-night television unless and until he bombs another pharmacy. That will only turn the humor darker. I try to recapture my old admiration for the man. But why do I sense that sunny, lucky, lip-biting Bill Clinton, with his shoeshine and smile, is not merely a figure of occasional dark possibilities but fairly sinister in his essence? The root of the trouble lies in the intuition that at bottom he is incapable of thinking about anyone...
...Ever since my revelation over a month ago, I've become the laughingstock of the magazine staff, subject to frequent heckling by fellow editors and staff writers. "Cultural illiterate!" they scream at me. "Worthless swine!" they think. People angrily wave our complimentary copy of Glamorama at me as I walk by the magazine office. It was a painful confession to say the least...
...upcoming campaign, those competitors hoping to capture the council presidency ought to heed some lessons from their unimpressive predecessors: First, and most importantly, keep your ego in check. You are not running for the highest office in the land. You are aspiring to lead a body which is the laughingstock of this campus. You don't need a campaign "staff...