Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Most of them were laughing about the threat, how silly the whole thing was, how ridiculous it was that their classes were canceled, or how it didn't bother them at all. They knew the bomb was a hoax, or so they told themselves. But don't let the laughter fool you; they were scared...
When Ford finished his summation with "Thank you and good night," a student watching at the Institute added to the laughter when he exclaimed, "Ford thinks he is Walter Cronkite...
Speaking anecdotally about his sense of the bizarre, and often interrupted during his 55-minute talk by laughter, Kosinski turned news clippings he had assembled into events filled with black humor...
...take this course a couple of times. Yesterday, it attracted about five graduate students, although it has the potential for a great deal of mass appeal. Yesterday, Professor Moran wowed opening-day gawkers with a non-technical spiel on Mesopotamian tablets, followed by a joke which provokes laughter each time it is uttered. "Reiner obviously had an Anzu period," Moran said. The class fairly roared. May be used to fulfill distribution requirement...
...ping-pong-dingdingding of the pinball machine, the pop-fizz of another round of Pabst, the refrain of Red Necks, White Socks and Blue Ribbon Beer on the juke box, the insolent roar of a souped-up engine outside and, above it all, the sound of easy laughter. The good ole boys have gathered for their fraternal ritual-the aimless diversion that they have elevated into a lifestyle...