Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...natives the patterns that are still used today in Fair Isle sweaters. Home Secretary Richard A. ("Rab") Butler told the House of Commons that three Soviet captains had landed at Lerwick and demanded that Teayn be handed over. "This was refused," Butler added, to the accompaniment of cheers-and laughter...
...beer and a package of gum remaining; or a one-way subway token to Scalloy Square (he can come back tomorrow); or English muffiins and a cup of tea. Or a package of cigarettes. But it is night, the time of neon and lengthy shadows, streetlamps, hushed voices, nervous laughter, and sex. Night is Harold's garment of life...
...Some of the signs, said Robertson, were embarrassingly inept. Example: an 18th century New England Windsor chair-cum-writing-arm artily labeled in three languages as the model of chairs used in "virtually all" U.S. schools today. "A group I saw," said Robertson, "read the card and burst into laughter...
Around the White House offices somber-faced staffers tiptoed across the squares of linoleum tile, whispered out their business as if some member of the official family were seriously ill. There was no laughter; tension ran higher than at any time since Dwight Eisenhower's heart attack. In the spacious, green-carpeted corner office, only 30 paces from the President's own, worked Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams, 59, briskly shuffling papers, softly snapping monosyllabic orders as he had since the day that he became Dwight Eisenhower's chief of staff in January...
When he was questioned as to the Assembly's prospects for survival under his regime, De Gaulle's answer brought involuntary roars of laughter from the Deputies, all of whom are keenly conscious of his deep-seated contempt for their past shenanigans. Purred De Gaulle: "The final proof that I have no intention of depriving myself of an Assembly elected by universal suffrage is, dear sir. the pleasure and honor that I find in being among you tonight...