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Word: jazziest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harry S. Truman was plunking his give-'em-hell keyboard again last week-only this time he was putting national defense to political ragtime. In one of his jazziest now-when-I-was-President moods, Harry recalled how he had seen the U.S. long-range missile program lagging, called in Chrysler Corp. President K. T. Keller, made him a missiles czar, with "instructions to knock heads together whenever it was necessary to break through bottlenecks." After that, claimed Truman, the missile program made "encouraging progress"-until, of course, the Eisenhower Administration ruined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Ragtime | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

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