Word: jagging
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...colloquialisms evolve slowly. "Jag," "tops," "dude" stayed around for decades before they began to lose their freshness. But jazz lingo becomes obsolescent almost as fast as it reaches the public ear. A term of high approbation in the swing era was "out of this world," in the bop era it was "gone," and today it is "the greatest" or "the end." Similarly, a daring performance was "hot," then "cool," and now is "far out." These are the terms currently most often used by modern jazz addicts: ball, n. A good time; having a ball; enjoying oneself...
More and more, it looked not like well-planned betrayal (he left behind papers which would have been invaluable to the Communists) but like a case of impetuous defection at the height of an emotional jag. John had been hitting the bottle, and telling friends of his concern over what he regarded as the return to power in West Germany of former Nazis. He disappeared immediately after attending the morbid anniversary observance of the July 20, 1944 attempt on Hitler's life (his own brother was executed in the bloody aftermath of that unsuccessful plot...
...trouble. After the first few laps over the tortuous 4.48-mile course (including turns of 110° and 135°) the race settled down to a neck & neck duel between Chicago Manufacturer Jim Kimberly, 45, in a Ferrari, and California's Phill Hill, driving a Jaguar C. The Jag was quicker on the corners, but invariably lost ground on the longest straightaway, a 6,000-ft. runway where Kimberly gunned his slim, low-hung speedster up to 150 m.p.h...
...role, but dramatically, he is completely convincing. As the reformed alcoholic trying to reconcile himself to his life with Lola, he has just the right tone of quiet and guarded desperation. And when the guard collapses and his bitterness and frustration explode in a tremendous jag, his performance has a terrifying intensity. To the smaller role of the young boarder who innocently shatters the deceptive calm of the Delaney home, Terry Moore brings an effective combination of naivete and seductiveness...
...legislature. The house finally agreed with him, and last week the state senate did so, too. At midnight of next December 31, the clank of the bandits will be stilled, and Idaho will begin trying to get back to normal again after its noisy and neon-lit jag...