Word: laughingstocks
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...marry for wealth or power rather than love. In their own primitive fashion, they are as firmly entered in the 20th century rat race as a Madison Avenue adman. No fool, Salesman Rantz snows the natives under with his bag of jokes-which terrify the islanders. He makes a laughingstock of the chief and moves into his job. By the native code losers in the grab for power are exiled to the other side of the island...
...here, that it will be a personal decision of the President of the U.S....God keep us out of war, but if war must come, let us not draw a line and say that beyond that line is a sanctuary which the enemy may occupy...We would be the laughingstock of mankind if we said we would not interfere until we saw the en-my actually putting his foot on the shore of Formosa...
...young fellow, after a few idle, commonplace stories from a gentleman in black, strip & go to bed with a young girl, & no one durst say black was his eye; while I, for just doing the same thing, only wanting that ceremony, am made a Sunday's laughingstock, & abused like a pickpocket." The abuse came from the parents of a master mason's daughter named Jean Armour, with whom Burns "had got deeply in love ... of which proofs were every day arising more & more to view. I would gladly have covered my Inamorata from the darts of Calumny with...
...while the furious Germans fruitlessly finecombed the island. By the time a Royal Navy motor launch nosed in to a southwest beach and took off both captive and captors, Moss and Leigh-Fermor knew that they had achieved their principal aim-to astound the enemy and make him the laughingstock of the local population...
...Super-Inch," stretching 506 miles eastward across the desert to meet another 1.100-mile pipeline stretching westward from Texas and New Mexico. To handle all the expanded supply, the gas utilities themselves would have to spend another $2.5 billion, another venture whose vastness would have made it a laughingstock only a few years...