Word: gingering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...main propellants in the second-quarter advance were increased government spending and capital investment and steady growth in new home construction. They were enough to offset a leveling off in retail sales, which accounted for much of the snap and ginger in the economy in the first quarter...
...night of Sept. 27, 1972, Bobby Lowe was walking his German shepherd named Ginger in front of his home on Chicago's west side. Lowe noticed William Logan, a neighbor who was a Teamster steward, strolling to his car at the curb. As Lowe vividly recalled the scene in courtroom testimony, an auto suddenly pulled up. Shots rang out, and "Mr. Logan flew back ... into some bushes." Next, said Lowe, a man sprang out of the car, apparently carrying a handgun, and walked up to Logan. Just then, Ginger lunged at the stranger. Lowe said that he grabbed...
...These guys did more dancing and hugging than Fred Astaire and Ginger Rodgers," one fight fan said. The crowd only cheered once, when the beginning of the last round was announced at the evening's close...
...Ginger Cookies. What can a poor legendmaker do with a late 20th century woman whose avowed model is Queen Victoria? By way of apology, Lacey theorizes that the sepulchral gloom of blacked-out Windsor Castle during World War II helped turn a "serious child into a serious girl." Certainly nobody could work harder than Lacey to put a little color in the girl's cheeks. He makes the most of her first meeting at 13, over ginger cookies and lemonade, with the brilliantly blue-eyed naval cadet who was to become her husband. Whenever possible the subject is shown...
...designers and mechanics on call in 40-ft., parts-stuffed support vans. The difference between the amateurs and the pros was evident in other ways; the John Deere team, in training for three months, was forbidden the nightly boilermakers and sat off to the side of each stop, drinking ginger ale and plotting strategy...