Word: jesting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...suppressed fears of many offspring are targeted by the popular bumper sticker, displayed only partly in jest, that boasts, WE'RE SPENDING OUR CHILDREN'S INHERITANCE. A 1991 survey conducted by the Gediman Research Group found that 64% of affluent Americans are more concerned with enjoying a comfortable retirement than leaving behind a sizable estate. "I'm free of guilt," says William McCarty, 66, a former grain and cattle farmer from Sheldon, Iowa, who has traveled to China and Russia since retiring. Next month he's off to Germany and Italy. "I keep telling my sons that...
...complains of another class in which the students "could easily have organized a thrilling game of 'Red Rover' or 'Keep Away' during our mind-numbingly dull discussions..." While I realize this is said in jest, perhaps instead, she or one of the other students could have added something interesting to the discussion, making it more lively...
...remark is only half in jest. In a business that thrives on mystery and superstition, Wall Street has good reason to be wary of this particular month. Six of its nine biggest one-day declines occurred during October, including Black Monday in 1929 and the Roaring Eighties crash of 1987. The last major collapse, the minicrash of 1989, also took place in October. While some traders suspect goblins, others blame more mundane forces. One is the so- called calendar effect, which is the result of October being the month when many corporations revise summertime earnings forecasts. Often those projections turn...
...comparison of Fujimori's recent military takeover to the "smoking of a joint but not inhaling" is offensive. Isa the imprisonment of political leaders, the censorship of the press and the loss of liberty and rights something to jest about...
...loved by everyone even more than most practitioners of his trade. Says Stephen Smith, a professor of communications at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, and onetime Clinton aide: "He would really like to get 100% in an election." Clinton makes such extreme efforts to conciliate opponents that Arkansans jest that the way to get something you want desperately is to become an enemy of the Governor...