Word: jagged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the economy was not "full of helium," and businessmen in whom he places trust assured him that inflation was not a real threat. "The favorite American pastime is worry," Johnson told a group of White House fellows when the talk turned to inflation. "It's their favorite jag." But the light turned amber-and Johnson called for an application of the brakes-when he got a look last week at a fresh stream of statistics that showed that inflation, if nothing to get panicky about yet, is certainly something to be dealt with...
...commander may cut any sentence (though he may never increase it), after which his actions are reviewed by a Judge Advocate General's Corps lawyer from the accused's branch of the service. For all major sentences, the next step after the commander is a three-lawyer "JAG" board of review in the Pentagon...
Sensing a new jag in the jigsaw trend, Springbok has become even more esoteric, is pushing circular puzzles (no straight edges to assemble for frame) in solid colors. Upon opening "Little Red Riding Hood's Hood," the puzzlephile sees nothing but red-506 pieces of it. Or if he prefers white or brown, he can work at two vicious circles teasingly entitled "Snow White Without the Seven Dwarfs" and "CloseUp of the Three Bears." For those overburdened with leisure time, the thrill in working out such finger exercises is the assurance that no deadlier way to kill time...
...Save the Queen. The camera, floating through a limbo of pound-foolish British affluence, ogles a jeweled clip, a limousine, a blonde, a bottle of expensive brandy. Close behind, and sniffing, comes Alan Bates, steaming with parvenu dreams about an A-type lady and an E-type Jag. "It's a filthy, stinking world," Bates muses, "but there are some smashing things in it." By the time this cheeky, stylish, mordantly funny variation on Room at the Top is over, most of the smashing things...
...Robert B. Payne reports, in the New England Journal of Medicine, a sick story about nutmeg. Two students at the University of North Carolina heard from a beatnik friend that it would give them a jag like a combination of the effects of alcohol and LSD or mescaline. The two lads each took two tablespoonfuls, the powder equivalent of two grated nutmegs, in a glass of milk. Within five hours they had a leaden feeling in their feet and legs, and an airy, dreamlike sensation in their heads. Their hearts were beating in double time. They were...