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Word: jauntiest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...friend Lawrance Thompson began publishing a three-volume biography; inadvertently or not, it replaced the cracker-barrel sage with a monster. Thompson piled up a chronicle of "jealousies, obsessive resentments, sulking, displays of temper, nervous rages, and vindictive retaliations" that threatened to eclipse even Frost's jauntiest lyrics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mortal Play | 11/12/1984 | See Source »

Forty-three independent but "tasteful" licensees, peddling all manner of Olympic-embossed merchandise, are expected to return $20 million to the committee. If there is a profit on the Games, and the jauntiest guesses run to $50 million, the money will be shared by the U.S.O.C., youth groups and amateur sports federations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Eve of a New Olympics | 10/17/1983 | See Source »

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