Word: jesting
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...helping to defeat some. Foes of the Christian right's crusade against television are worried that it will become part of the movement's growing campaign against political liberalism. Moral Majority's Thomas is frank to admit there is a connection. Says he, only half in jest: "The revolutionaries always take the radio station first. They get the presidential palace later...
...voter "wary-worried -waiting" [Sept. 15]? You jest. With runaway inflation, forced busing and senseless murders, I'm ready to vote right now. Against every incumbent politician and judge...
...zucchini jest depends on the pretense that these monstrous garden tumors are edible and on the certain knowledge that in a New Hampshire family, what has been cooked as food, however pulpy and woeful, must be eaten. Woodpiling is a form of boastfulness left over from colonial times, and it consists of erecting in plam sight an unnecessarily large and stately pile of cordwood, with plumb sides and flashy square corners. Such a fortress wrests envy, respect and despair, as it is intended to, from all New Hampshire males and a good many homesteading females who have not yet bucked...
Shortages may be the most obvious problem, but Poland's economic malaise cuts much more deeply. When the trains do not run, or the electricity goes off, or a project remains unfinished, the response by workers is a shrug of the shoulders and the disclaimer, "To nie jest moja wina" (It isn't my fault...
...sand prices make it a powerful competitor of the Spanish resorts that have long attracted the working-class English vacationer. But today there are few places in the world where a lad and his lass from Lancashire can get a better vacation bargain than in what some call in jest "Blackpool in the Sun," after the blue-collar British vacation spot of less affluent times. Two weeks at a Miami Beach hotel, round-trip air fare included, can cost as little as $470. One British tour firm, Intasun, alone has reserved 6,000 beds a night in 21 Florida hotels...