Word: snickeringly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Scientists do not know whether to snicker or be outraged, and most have been hesitant to dignify the theory by formally investigating it. Last month a team of intrepid researchers at Johns Hopkins University ventured into the area. Writing in the Archives of General Psychiatry, Psychologist John Shaffer and Psychiatrist Chester Schmidt reported that despite biorhythm's "wistful appeal," the theory just doesn't work...
...answer most given is that he is the liberal, the compassionate but pragmatic leader of the city's Roosevelt-liberal coalition. The pundits snicker at the credentials of Cuomo, who carries the endorsement of the official party but whose political past renders him more than suspect. Cuomo is a political harple, the experts say, an unconscionably ambitious man with no political scruples. They chuckle at his fate: When he was no longer of use to Carey, who propped him up as a straw man to draw away Beame's support in the primary, the governor dumped him. Now Cuomo draws...
Like planned parenthood and Daniel Berrigan, Harvard has never been very popular with Catholic America. There are a few who don't mind the great bastion of Eastern intellectualism--the kind of people who read Playboy and don't say so in confession, who snicker wickedly when the bishop belches into the pulpit microphone during his Christmas sermon and especially the ones who root for USC against Notre Dame every November. But real Catholics aren't so kind. As a sign of serious spiritual decay, a Harvard education ranks right down there between nymphomania and a marked distaste for fish...
...Snicker and Change...
When the six-foot Bok, who obviously enjoyed his role as floor general, embellished an easy rebound by soaring high in the air, it prompted one teammate to snicker "He's been watching too much T.V. lately...