Word: pratfallen
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Ironically, neither Ford nor Carter lacks the makings of an amusing President. The incumbent has "at least two professional gagwriters on his staff -though he sometimes fluffs their lines -and is said to laugh heartily at Chevy Chase's pratfallen Ford impersonations. Ford himself sometimes cracks that his Secret Service contingent receives combat pay when he plays golf. The outcumbent used to tell campaign crowds a story about how, as a boy selling boiled peanuts in Plains, he found there were only two kinds of people in the world, "the good people and those who didn...
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