Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Khrushchev would appear before Congress and tell Congress the Soviet Union wants to compete with the United States . . . The U.S. needs competition. Right now we are not even at half blower [airplane slang for half power]." Replied Khrushchev: "They won't let me in." That caused gay laughter...
...other guests), bypassed his baked potato, nibbled at an unbuttered green vegetable, and talked to his photographer dinner companions on subjects ranging from painting to golf. Later, when the lights were turned low in the vast ballroom, the President settled back to enjoy the entertainment, rocked with laughter at the quips of Comedian Bob Hope, returned the jaunty wave of Negro Songstress Pearl Bailey. When it was time to leave, he took a few strides in the wrong direction, spun, and walked from the room so rapidly that the Secret Service men had to scurry to keep pace...
...Because of his extreme suspicion, Stalin toyed also with the absurd and ridiculous suspicion that Voroshilov was an English agent [Laughter"). A special tapping device was installed in his home to listen to what was said there...
...blanket covering the corpses-and discovers that his "victims" were nothing more than three inflated wineskins that had been tied to his doorpost. Everyone but the stranger has a good chuckle as he learns that he has been the butt of the town's annual Festival of Laughter...
...Merit, on Broadway, came in most sizes and shapes. In My Fair Lady, music had charms to please the most civilized breast; gilding Pygmalion, My Fair Lady made a dazzling Mayfair lady of Shaw's guttersnipe. The season's comedies had everything from the faint fine laughter of the eyes to sheer guffawing rock and roll. There was rewarding drama as well as melodrama, and in The Diary of Anne Frank, which won seven awards (including the Pulitzer and Critics' Circle), sound sentiment...