Word: jacked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...woman with a breathy voice made a series of subtle ads ("Vixen-is she woman or animal"-pant-pant) for the local radio stations. By August the theater owners knew they were riding a good thing. So many tourists were flocking to the show that the owners could jack the prices to twice their original level...
Suggesting interim laws while further research is conducted, Dr. Jack R. Ewalt, Bullard Professor of Psychiatry, said he would apply "the same laws used for production, distribution, sale, and consumption of alcohol to the problem of marijuana...
...team of Montreal moviemakers filmed seal hunters bashing in the skulls of cuddly baby seals on the pristine ice floes off the east coast of Canada, the shots were seen round the world. That was five years ago, and the howls of protest have still not subsided. Complained Jack Davis, Canada's Minister of Fisheries: "A lot of young people in distant countries now think of Canada only in terms of seals...
...more acceptable to kill "beater" seals than younger pups? "Well," explained Jack Davis, "Mother has left, and the animal is no longer as cute as it was. . ." Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau pointed out that the ban on clubs may result in less humane methods of killing. "But those who protest," he noted candidly, "won't be shown the same photographs of baby seals with their big blue or brown eyes...
NELSON AND THE HAMILTONS by Jack Russell. 448 pages. Simon & Schuster. $10. A fond, splendidly informative account of the grotesque but genuine love between a blowsy beauty and the small, skiny, one-armed, one-eyed seaman who was England's greatest admiral...