Word: jig
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...affair of Lady Amherst and Mensch holds the reader's chief interest and sympathy because it's the most coherent and human part of Letters; the other characters dance a contorted jig about it, A. B. Cook III and his descendant A. B. Cook VI send their unborn children endless genealogical accounts of the family's intrigues, centering around the War of 1812. Jerome Bonaparte Bray, part dictator, part human fly, part servant of a computer, plots a Second American Revolution. Todd Andrews--still alive, despite The Floating Opera's denouement--writes to his dead father contemplating a second suicide...
After he sank his birdie putt on 18 on Sunday, Player, whose demeanor is akin to that of the dour Scotch pros of old, erupted into a victory jig. He also punched the air in triumph. This is a common gesture nowadays, but before the 21-year-old Gary Player joined the U.S. tour in 1957, it had never been seen in America...
...Virtues of the Neutron Bomb," defending the most recent piece of Strangelovian paraphernalia. The editorial stated that the neutron bomb's "modest blast and intense but circumscribed and short-lived radiation make it particularly effective against advancing tanks and armies." The cigar-chomping military brass must be dancing a jig of delight, detecting more support for their new toy. Meanwhile, most folks are sorely disappointed: at least another year before the Pentagon alchemists conjure up the Doomsday Machine. Now let's see...how many grams of uranium does it take to wipe out 50,000 human beings...
Where is the jig from...
...lively dance known as the jig has historically been derived from or connected with such words as the French Gigue, the Italian Giga and the German Geige, or fiddle...