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Word: yuk (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...straight to Mrs. Truman and apologize. Then I'd go home." Hollywood thought the idea was cute. In 1964's Kisses for My President, Politician Polly Bergen is elected and then, domestically enough, has to resign when her husband, Fred MacMurray, gets her pregnant. Yuk yuk yuk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Madam President | 3/20/1972 | See Source »

...DIDN'T KNOW whether to be amused or depressed. I tend now to look at the whole thing as a big joke because I find it more enjoyable, and because I hate to contemplate sad realities. So I go to Tremont Street and then to Government Center to yuk it up for three solid hours, but I can't help thinking meanwhile that no matter how hard I laugh, these people are determining our pollicies around the world. They're putting the punch in Nixon's words. They're the reason Nixon can watch a football game and ignore...

Author: By Bennelt H. Beach, | Title: Wake Up, America! Bob Hope Is in Town | 4/29/1970 | See Source »

...held outdoors in a livestock exposition arena), but mainly is preoccupied with providing plenty of lip-smackin-good leers. (Told that his client never played around. Tony quips in disbelief, "What's the matter-did he have it shot off in the last war?") When he's not reconstructing Yuk Night at the American Legion Smoker, the director is going for the obvious sight gags (a-sheriff's tattoo which reads "Mother") and stereotypes (a swishy hairdresser named Mr. Andre...

Author: By Clifford Terry, | Title: The Moviegoer Sound and Furie "The Lawyer" at the Saxon | 2/11/1970 | See Source »

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