Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rehash the politics of that cynical war, or play the omniscient journalist with hindsight. What he remembers best is the first Russian prisoner he saw: a frightened, ignorant peasant reduced to blubbering tears by the offer of a cigarette from his Finnish captors, and later brought to hysterical laughter when he realized that Mydans' camera was not a deadly weapon. Then, having been decent to.the prisoner, a Finnish major turned to Mydans and, between clenched teeth, assured him: "Russians are pigs...
...group of teen-age hecklers, forced to leave the microphone and totter back to his seat. And as his motorcade of crimson station wagons headed upriver into the Long dynasty's traditional heartland, in town after town the audiences were dwindling-and the disturbing sound of hoots and laughter was rising...
There is precious little laughter in this text. Even the clown is the merest shadow of his traditional former self. The showing up of Parolles for what he is, though richly deserved, is not really funny. Nor is it comical to see a count try to weasel out of his King's command; or to see him coldly desert his wife on their wedding day; or to see a woman arrange for her husband to commit (as he thinks) adultery...
...wave of laughter swept over the sweltering press conference, and the President himself had to control a grin before answering; coming from Constant Critic McClendon, a staunch friend of House Speaker Sam Rayburn, the question was akin to awarding Ike the ears and tail of a brave but lifeless bull...
...they've led a sheltered existence. Their friends are all in the service." As for himself, Rickover declared that "there never has been one single incident where any influence or anyone visiting me has had the slightest impact or effect on my program," and the audience burst into laughter and applause. Prodded again and again by Chairman Hébert, Rickover reluctantly agreed to submit a confidential list of names and incidents for the committee to examine...