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Word: laughter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Administration finally was working hard to achieve an outcome that would be successful from its perspective. Aides to Secretary of State Cyrus Vance could not suppress their laughter when their boss, appearing on TV's Meet the Press, stood a question on its head in order to insert a plug for Carter's energy program. Asked whether the President planned to visit Saudi Arabia during his nine-nation trip next month, Vance fairly pounced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Launching the Energy Blitz | 10/31/1977 | See Source »

...lily-white, aristocratic Princeton, New Jersey, in the small enclave of black laborers and domestics that centered largely around his father's church, the African Methodist Episcopal Church of Zion. "In a way I was 'adopted' by all these good people," Robeson remembers, "...There was the honest joy of laughter in these homes, folk-wit and story, hearty appetites for life as for the nourishing greens and black-eyed peas and cornmeal bread they shared with...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: Of Love and Longing, Trials and Triumphs | 10/6/1977 | See Source »

...enrich his staff and get people who know how this city runs. Nothing is so effective in the White House as a staff of young men and women who love the office, love the work, love the city, love politics, and who travel through the back corridors with laughter and zest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Searching for that Special Formula for Leadership | 10/3/1977 | See Source »

Brooks told her to go back and try it again. Then he pulled off his shirt, and as Keaton opened the bathroom door, was busy removing his pants. She came apart in shrieks of laughter. Pulling herself together, she did the scene again, says Brooks, and "it was perfect. When she opened that door, she really didn't know what she was going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Love, Death and La - De - Dah | 9/26/1977 | See Source »

...means. The new play, written by Tommy Kramer and expected to open in Eliot House December 1, attempts to present a humorous description of a Harvard freshman year. We all made some mistakes then; Kramer's very funny play will remind us of some we would probably rather forget. Laughter may be the only cure...

Author: By Diane Sherlock, | Title: Mistakes to Enjoy | 9/22/1977 | See Source »

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