Word: joking
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Gayle saw no obvious damage to the lock and denied rumors that it was a racist attack, hypothesizing that it was probably just a practical joke...
...President is more curious and hungry for information than ever. He takes the time to understand the processes of airport security and intelligence gathering instead of racing to the decision line of the memos set before him. In meetings with legislators, he is relaxed enough to crack the occasional joke. On Thursday, when New York Senator Charles Schumer pressed him to add an extra $20 billion in emergency aid for the state, Bush did not hesitate. "You got it," he said, though it meant squelching the objections of conservative G.O.P. Senators Don Nickles, Phil Gramm and Pete Domenici...
...slobbering bumpkin would think, "I feel your pain"? The ironists, seeing through everything, made it difficult for anyone to see anything. The consequence of thinking that nothing is real--apart from prancing around in an air of vain stupidity--is that one will not know the difference between a joke and a menace...
...retrospect, I should have taken the train all the way out of Manhattan. Instead, I got off at the next stop, wanting to see if there had just been a joke after all. I also thought that it would be dangerous to be underground if something did explode and the buildings were to collapse on the underground subway system...
...waiting for my train when a prankster called a bomb threat into the station. I found myself once again running frantically out of the building with everyone else. Once we were reassured that it was merely a cruel joke, I returned to the station and boarded my train to Boston, where I was met by my boyfriend and finally stopped worrying that I would never see him again...