Word: jig
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gieben reported the dramatic result: "The wheezing stopped instantaneously. Hypnosis was reinforced on alternate days for ten days, and for the first time in years the patient was able to sleep throughout the night without any wheezing. At the end of ten days he became elated ... and danced a jig in front of the ward patients to illustrate how fit and well he felt...
...John Francis ("Honey Fitz'') Fitzgerald, twice the mayor of Boston and a U.S. Congressman, the only man in town who could sing Sweet Adeline sober and get away with it. (It was a proud Honey Fitz who at 83 climbed upon a table and danced a merry jig and sang Sweet Adeline when his grandson Jack won his first term in the Congress...
N.C.A.A. Football Game (ABC, 2:15 p.m. to conclusion). A clash between the Jig Ten juggernauts, Iowa and Ohio State...
...Leaguers who flocked to help out in the campaign. The old pols were disgusted, until Jack and his youthful supporters won handsomely, with 42% of the vote. On the night of the primary victory, old Honey Fitz, 83, crawled up on a table, danced a stiff-legged Irish jig and sang Sweet Adeline. It was the swan song for the old, colorful and rascally breed of Boston Irish politics...
...Electras-over Buffalo, Texas, and Tell City, Ind.-at a cost of 97 lives. In one of the biggest and most expensive (estimated cost to all participants, including F.A.A. and the airlines: $25 million) test programs in aviation history, Lockheed has placed an entire airplane in a huge mechanical jig, is literally shaking it to test its vibration tolerances. A whole wing section complete with engines has been taken off the production line, is being twisted and bent to destruction to check its strength. All critical parts are being dye-tested for surface cracks, X-rayed for hidden flaws...