Word: yuk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just a joke, Jones explained, you know, yuk, yuk? Around 3 a.m. the following morning, the Reds finally got the point, though they didn't think it was very funny. Neither did Jones by the time he got back to Ramstein, having been cross-examined at the U.S. embassy in Vienna, and again in Frankfurt by a mysterious team identified only as "Western intelligence." After two days in the post hospital for "extreme nervousness," Jones had the Air Force Office of Special Investigation at work on him last week. And, girls being girls, no one could say whether...
...nails; she strips Herzog of his bank account during the day, ridicules him into impotence at night; after meals she is in the habit of applying her lipstick while gazing at her reflection in a knife blade. Her lover, Valentine Gersbach, is an ex-disk jockey who loves to "yuk it up" with intellectuals, gives Herzog fatherly lectures on how to get along with his wife...
...joke, yuk, yuk. The boy needed a little publicity, and we were just giving him a hand. So said the three defendants who were accused of kidnaping Frank Sinatra Jr. Said the jury, after only 6 hrs. 53 min. of deliberation: guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty. Six counts for two, five for the other, and the judge was obviously prepared for the verdict. One of the kidnapers managed to wangle a delay in sentencing, but the other two got the book and the bibliography both: life imprisonment, plus 75 years. Yuk, yuk...
...Pope, according to one lyric, "flew to Galilee across the Apostolic See." Yuk. Chancellor Erhard, someone announced, admiringly changed the name of Unter den Linden to Unter den Lyndon. Hah, hah, jawohl Within the Republican Party there is a "strong underground movement" for Richard Nixon (onto the screen popped an old news photo of Nixon wearing a coal miner's headlamp...
...Lord's Taverners are a group of British showbiz and sporting chaps who like to yuk it up in various sports that catch their fancy. At this year's outing the game was basketball-and against the court-clowning Harlem Globetrotters, no less. In the first half, the Globetrotters laughed their way to a 20-0 lead. But the script always calls for the Taverners to win. And so Prince Philip, 42, a Taverner reserve and part-time Gunga Din, donned white waiter's jacket and served the visitors champagne in silver cups. While the Globetrotters reeled...