Word: quips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...George W. Bush is at all worried about not taking part in the couple of GOP presidential-candidate debates so far, he should take heart from an Oscar Wilde quip: "The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about." That was not the case Sunday eveging in Tempe, Ariz., when four Republican presidential candidates met in a televised forum, ostensibly to discuss the issues facing the nation. In fact, Alan Keyes, Orrin Hatch, Steve Forbes and John McCain never really got moving on any substantive exchanges, as they were far too busy huffing and puffing over...
...popular "hurry up and wait" quip was funny when we arrived last night at midnight; it is already a meaningless hash of a clich?.? Processing tasks generally take about 15 minutes, and occur at the rate of perhaps three a day. Today was the issuing of Army t-shirts and a laundry bag, the taking of blood and the X-raying of teeth.? Tomorrow, we hear, will be haircuts and dealing with pay issues, possibly even the issuing of BDUs (fatigues). Standing in line for chow takes hours. Standing with the platoon at parade rest: more hours. We stand...
...Known to undergraduates as the David Letterman-esque professor of Science A-35, "Matter in the Universe," Kirshner lightens the atmosphere in his cluttered office with a steady stream of jokes. After a one-liner about slacker students and a quip about make-up exams, he quickly turns to the matter at hand--attempting to distinguish astronomy from astrology...
...biology suggests that humanity has special status. Virtually every other type of animal comes in multiple varieties: dozens of species of monkeys, antelopes, whales and hawks walk, swim or fly the earth, to say nothing of beetles, whose hundreds of thousands of species inspired biologist J.B.S. Haldane's famous quip that God must have had "an inordinate fondness" for them. Even our closest kin, the great apes, fall into four species, divided into several subspecies...
...worst wasn't even the revolting tale of the "Greaseman," a white disk jockey in Washington who was fired for appending a vile quip to a portion of a song by multiple Grammy Award-winning hip-hop singer Lauryn Hill: "No wonder people drag them behind trucks...