But the Lions were perpetual laughingstocks, and most assumed he was simply tired of nonstop losing.
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Rookie center Joel Embiid single-handedly has transformed the 76ers from league laughingstocks to a suddenly dangerous team.
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They lost to the woebegone, process-driven Philadelphia 76ers, who in recent seasons have recently served as the laughingstocks of the league.
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I don't think it's hard to make fun of the biggest laughingstocks in the world who are in the news all day long.
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With some distance between us and the scandal in question — and the sexual politics of the time — the series' close look at the events humanizes figures who were made laughingstocks at the time.
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That trade was not terribly well-received, but at the end of the draft, there were several reasons to think the Kings may have finally reversed course from being considered the NBA's laughingstocks.
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Recently, in a blistering roast by Sarah Ellison in Vanity Fair, Ms. Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, were cast as ineffectual dilettantes and Beltway laughingstocks, treating the nation like a vanity project, an ad campaign, a toy.
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Just as Ken Starr and impeachment-crazed conservatives in the House pushed it way too far and made laughingstocks of themselves, succumbing to Clinton Derangement Syndrome, so the alt-right allows Hillary to have an easy target that occludes the Clintons' own transgressions.
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From Jose Altuve and Lance McCullers to Evan Gattis, the pieces were added one by one until the Houston Astros, once laughingstocks throughout the majors following their relocation from the National League, claimed their first American League pennant with a 4-0 win over the New York Yankees in Game 21 of the American League Championship Series at Minute Maid Park.
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The power vacuum will undoubtedly give teams like the Green Bay Packers and the Seattle Seahawks motivation to get off to a hot start, but optimism abounds even in the dark corners of the league like Jacksonville and Oakland, where two franchises that have been laughingstocks for years believe that meticulous planning may finally pay off with fewer moral victories and more actual victories.
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But in the end, these rejected laughingstocks have only papered over a whole gallery of cabinet grotesques: from Scott Pruitt to Steve Mnuchin; Ben Carson to Betsy DeVos; and other "not qualified" jurists such as Leonard Steven Grasz, a believer in ignoring high-court rulings for abortion rights, former board member of a Nebraska organization that supports "conversion therapy" for gay kids (views Grasz says he has "never repudiated"), and a justice described as vengeful and "gratuitously rude" by former colleagues, who is now filling a lifetime seat on the 8th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.
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The first book publication was in his Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses (London: Macmillan, 1909).
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Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses is a collection of poems by English poet Thomas Hardy, and was published in 1909. It includes poems of various dates,D. Wright ed., Thomas Hardy: Selected Poems (Penguin 1978) p.
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"The Man He Killed" as it appeared in a 1910 edition of Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses "The Man He Killed" is a poem written by Thomas Hardy. Written in 1902, it was first published in Harper's Weekly, Nov. 8 1902Harper's Weekly, Volume 46, Nov. 8 1902, page 1649.
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Justice League International (vol. 1) #23 (January 1989) The Injustice League is defeated time and again by the Justice League International, at least when they are not making laughingstocks of themselves. Trying to reform, the members later become the core of the equally laughable hero team Justice League Antarctica. This JLA includes G'Nort, who ends up saving the lives of the entire team.
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In between those terms, from 1965–67, Devine was assistant to the president and then president (and de facto general manager) of the New York Mets, where he helped put together the organization that turned the franchise from baseball's laughingstocks into 1969's world champions as the "Miracle Mets." During the 1980s, he also served as president of the St. Louis football Cardinals of the National Football League.
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Justice League International Vol. 1 #23 The Injustice League have been defeated time and again by the Justice League International, at least when they are not making laughingstocks of themselves. Trying to reform, the members later become the core of the equally laughable hero team Justice League Antarctica.Justice League America Annual #4 They help out the Justice League when JLI liaison Maxwell Lord lies in a coma,Justice League America #53 but again later reform as the Injustice League as henchmen of Sonar.
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The Injustice League is defeated time and again by the Justice League International, at least when they are not making laughingstocks of themselves. Trying to reform, the members later become the core of the equally laughable hero team Justice League Antarctica. This JLA includes G'nort, who ends up saving the lives of the entire team.Justice League America Annual #4 Like his compatriots, Pramble becomes an ardent supporter of Maxwell Lord, partly because he is the only one willing to hire them.
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The same year that Dragnet debuted on radio, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Sidney Kingsley's stage play Detective Story opened on Broadway. This frank, carefully researched dramatization of a typical day in an NYPD precinct detective squad became another benchmark in the development of the police procedural. Dragnet marked a turn in the depiction of the police on screen. Instead of being corrupt laughingstocks, this was the first time police officers represented bravery and heroism. In their quest for authenticity, Dragnet’s producers used real police cars and officers in their scenes.
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