Word: laughingstocks
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...Mardi Gras festival is a time of orgiastic release, when they can momentarily forget their cares. Ordinarily Baby Doc would have joined in the festivities, but a boycott of the carnival called by his opponents was gathering momentum. The President, sniggered residents of Port-au-Prince, would be the laughingstock of a carnival to which no one came. On the other hand, any crowds that did form would be a danger to his regime...
Charging that the president is largely responsible for making the Hanover campus "the laughingstock of the nation," Dartmouth biology professor Melvin Speigel said that "if [McLaughlin] had any respect for the faculty and the college" he would resign...
...faculty meeting one professor publicly attacked McLaughlin for allowing Dartmouth to become "the laughingstock of the nation," while another claimed that "bigotry, racism, and intolerance" have characterized the McLaughlin administration, The Dartmouth reported...
...obviate the problem of the unwanted and embarassing gift album, you need only to express definite and immutable musical preferences before your loved ones go out to squander their money on something that will make you the laughingstock of your school, church or place of employment. You should be firm: inform your particular nuclear unit that you will douse the tree with water, short-circuit the lights and burn down the living room if you do not get what you want. It's best to ask for a lot of records because the stores sometimes run out, leaving you again...
They certainly have in the tenure of Co-Captains Joe Carrabino and Bob Jerry, the Harvard basketball program that was very recently the laughingstock of the Ivies has been a legitimate title contender two year...