Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...average man's chart. When Ryan's aide, 1st Lieut. John B. Blount, who was wounded on Old Baldy in Korea, followed his chief to the stand, McCarthy asked him about the black and the white. Blount's answer rocked the hearing room with laughter. Said he: "In my opinion, the reason that it was done was just for comparative purposes, just like in a prize fight on television, one of the fighters wears dark trunks and one of the fighters wears light trunks." McCarthy gave Blount a verbal...
...trying the same line in Sydney, a strongly Labor city, Menzies ran into trouble. He was reciting the impressive statistics of industrial production (steel up 40%, electricity, 50%) when a "baiter" from the rear piped up with the question: "What about pig iron, Bob?" The crowd roared with laughter, for "Pig Iron Bob" was the bitter nickname accorded to Bob Menzies in the days before World War II, when he permitted pig iron to be exported to Japan. Menzies joined in the laughter, but his reply caused even more: "Glad you mentioned it. Pig iron...
...three Cambodians by Viet Minh rebels, Molotov was scathing. "We have heard about this telegram, but we haven't seen it," he declared scornfully. The Cambodian minister waved the telegram aloft. "Now we have seen it, but we still haven't read it," snapped Molotov, to the laughter of the Communist delegations...
Bidault stood up. "When men are dying, we should not be laughing," he said. "I should like to point out that the laughter did not come from the free nations' benches." The laughter stopped abruptly. Amid dead silence, Molotov arose and admitted sheepishly: "I agree with the French Foreign Minister...
...chicken in Lipton's soup, you've got to have faith,"Godfrey was saying. "Just like it says in the Bible. You know-the Book of Hebrews, Chapter 11, Verse one: 'Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen' [laughter]. Or as it says in the Book of John, Chapter 20, Verse 29: 'Blessed are they that have not seen and yet have believed.' But don't go lookin' in the soup. It's there, but you'll never see it [laughter...