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Word: jeffs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...continues the old family tradition of doing good for the poor while doing well politically-something the massive poverty program has made rather easy. She administers the local poverty effort, sowing federal largesse and reaping a bumper crop of votes for the county Democratic organization headed by her husband, Jeff Davis Howell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poverty: Feud in the Hills | 9/12/1969 | See Source »

...Jeff Davis quickly became a leader of his class but also showed certain rebellious qualities befitting a future President of the Confederacy. Davis was one of the first cadets to be court-martialed for frequenting Benny Havens' off-limits tavern at nearby Buttermilk Falls. There were other charges, including cooking in quarters, spitting on the floor, and "firing his musket from the window of his room." And Ulysses S. Grant, though he was never court-martialed, stole turkeys from the superintendent and roasted them in his fireplace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poets and Presidents | 7/25/1969 | See Source »

...BATTLE and stablemate are going all out for the win, JOVIAL JEFF has shown good ability to go the distance, TANTEO is often in the money...

Author: By The Scientist, | Title: Snooze Picks Winners At Rockingham Park | 7/8/1969 | See Source »

...with "Wild Thing"; Jethro Tull, with Ian Anderson strutting, kicking, and striking a Panlike pose with his flute; and the frenetic sound of Ten Years Yater--was prologue. And from the moment they walked on, you said to yourself that everything that came after would be anticlimax. (In fact, Jeff Beck was worse; a real down...

Author: By Jerald R. Gerst, | Title: Newport Jaz: I | 7/8/1969 | See Source »

...Days abounds in unreported behind-the-scenes incidents and anecdotes. The author notes, for example, that Kennedy seriously urged TV Newscaster Walter Cronkite to run for Senator in New York. He vividly re-creates a hotel-room scene in which Kennedy, wearing only his shorts, berates Adam Walinsky and Jeff Greenfield, two young speech-writing aides, for spending more time plucking at guitars than pecking at typewriters. At the time, Kennedy was facing defeat in Oregon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Memoirs: Remembering Robert Kennedy | 6/20/1969 | See Source »

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