Word: jig
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...best woman win," Mrs. Hicks declared, beaming over a green and white victory cake at 400 cheering campaign workers in her downtown headquarters at the Boston City Club. She then drove off to tour local television stations while the crowd broke into an Irish jig...
...that inane reverse-and double-reverse Gaston-and-Alphonse jig that Lyndon and Aleksei trotted out, what would have happened if the surveyor had missed the halfway point by a hundred feet? Would they have thrown up a tent in the backyard and torn up poor old Tom Robinson's rose garden? Honestly...
HITCHCOCK: Strangely enough, over the wall and everything. But it did jig up and down in an unusual...
...playgoers were "yung and easily freudened," as Joyce once put it. But fashions are the autumns of ideas. Last season Murray Schisgal put all those clotted cliches into the mouths of three wackily soulful devotees of "adjustment" and "personal relationships," derisively labeled his play Luv, and the psychosexual jig...
...that bystanders called the "L.BJ." and the "Valenti." In the L.B.J., more caricature than choreography, they shuffled around the floor to the rhythm of the hitchhike, punching each other on the shoulder, "reasoning together," dialing imaginary telephones, grasping hands in the presidential flesh-press. For the Valenti, a simple jig by comparison, they went through the motions of a man reaching into his pockets and throwing out dollar bills, a kinetic play on Presidential Aide Jack Valenti's huge salary in his new job as head of the Motion Picture Association (see The Administration...