Word: laughs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ugly slash of a strip mine, where the people seem more alive and you can get killed as easy as next Saturday night. A lot of days I'm glad I have Boston and The New York Times and the current cinema. I make up stupid country songs and laugh at the women's circle of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Clendenin (South); but O God: there are times when I want to go home so bad, just sit on the porch with a glass of bourbon and watch smoke curl out of my father's pipe...
...evident. I have spent many blissful hours dozing in the back of an APC while the officers were off somewhere vainly attempting to figure out where we were, where we were going and just what we were doing. For myself and my fellow soldiers, it was something to laugh at and shake our heads about. But certainly, it is no laughing matter...
...always fired up-but he never liked it; so when he got away to Annapolis, he wrote me right away: 'Dear Gloria, Please do not call me "Hot" and please do not write to me on lined notebook paper with pencil.' " That she and her mother laugh long at the memory is one more piece of the story they tell-a healthy piece. For anyone who sat out the parched family pieties of the Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon years, the sound of home laughter that laps all sides of Jimmy Carter comes as welcome as water...
...films are breaking box-office records in Utah and Idaho. They deal basically with pioneer-children stories, action adventures with strong moral kickers-all shamelessly calculated to make kids and adults laugh, cry and walk away feeling entertained, not emotionally drained. Dayton's first film, made in 1973, was Where the Red Fern Grows, a tale of a boy and his two hunting dogs. Financed with the help of Dayton's surgeon father-in-law, Dr. George Doty, Fern cost $500,000 but already has grossed $8 million. It starred Dayton's 16-year-old nephew, Stewart...
...from our continent−was regarded in its day as a folly. Congress was prevailed upon only with the greatest difficulty to provide the $7 million to complete the deal. The mythology of American ineptitude in its diplomatic pursuits carried into the 20th century. Will Rogers always got a laugh when he cracked, "America never lost a war and never won a conference...