Word: wisecrackers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Makers claim that they have increased the comfort of the new poromerics by doing without the fabric interlayers used to back the first generation of artificial leathers. Those interlayers made the material thick and stiff. Consumers shod in Du Font's product inspired the wisecrack, "Corfam shoes always look brand new; they always feel brand...
...South Korean contingent was awaiting orders to pack up. The first large-scale withdrawal of the 23,700 G.I.s still in Viet Nam was due to begin this week. A bulletin board at the MACV headquarters at Tan Son Nhut sported an old but newly appropriate wisecrack: LAST ONE OUT, PLEASE TURN OFF THE LIGHTS...
...oath of office and make his Inaugural speech at the east front of the Capitol. After a quick lunch with Congressional leaders, who are expected to be too polite to talk about their current disagreements with Nixon, he will review the parade. (It is not true, as a Washington wisecrack about Nixon's recent isolation has it, that the parade will be routed past Camp David and he will send aides H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman out to review...
...Recitals of 17th and 18th century romantic poetry are interspersed with luridly explicit readings from a porno catalogue. Every serious motion, every attempt at discourse, is interrupted by a song and dance, or a conga line, or a snippet of newsreel, or a blast of music, or a wisecrack from the audience...
...glory but shame on Swimmer Spitz for his sickening lampshade wisecrack -from one of the millions whose aunts were murdered at Auschwitz...