Word: kiddingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Year by Year. For three months doctors and nurses in the Darwin hospital tended the boy that everyone came to know as "the Kupang Kid." Then the government, whose "white Australia" policy bars Asian immigrants, brusquely announced that, once restored to health, Bas Wie would be sent back to Timor. Darwin citizens bombarded the Immigration Minister with protests. "A kid with guts like that," said one, "needs encouragement." Yielding to pressure, the government gave Bas Wie a one-year certificate of exemption. Each year after that the certificate was renewed...
...desk. The grudging spark of humor and the sudden flashes of gaiety that he sometimes permits himself were gone. Tom Stephens, the President's appointment secretary, who helped Adams win the Ike primary in New Hampshire, stepped into Adams' office. "You know how you like to kid me about helping you in New Hampshire?" said Stephens. "Well, I want to help you now, and in a few months I think you'll be able to kid about this, too." Adams looked up wordlessly as a smile brushed his face. Even his closest friends could not tell whether...
...story is set in the South of France in the midst of what Author Brown called "the champagne campaign" of 1944. His heroes, a slum-bunny lieutenant (Frank Sinatra) and a rich-kid sergeant (Tony Curtis), fight the Germans all week in the hills, fight the booze all weekend on the Riviera. Then Sinatra meets a pretty girl (Natalie Wood) and falls in love with her, even though her mother (Leora Dana), a U.S. expatriate, has informed him that the girl's father was a Negro...
...that I don't love my family; it's just that - it ain't enough. I mean, a man's got an obligation to himself, too, to be happy the best way he can. D'y'understand?" But how can a kid that age understand? Pa gives up and buys him a beer and goes off to see his girl...
Slakedown. In Plainville, Conn., Police Chief Louis Datoli noticed two youngsters drinking soda pop near a headquarters vending machine, asked a third bystanding kid why he was not drinking also, was told: "Those were the only two dimes...