Word: jinglees
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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He is the Santa Claus of State and Washington Streets who spends his mornings with the hurried crunch of Christmas shoppers and the jingle of his Salvation Army bell.
Snap, crackle, pop? Callow youths who hear that riff might mistake it for the opening of a new rap song, but anyone old enough to have endured the 1950s and '60s knows the refrain as the opening of a TV-commercial jingle for Rice Krispies cereal. Now the old standby...
During spring training, Commissioner Peter Ueberroth quietly tried to talk to Martin about his drinking. But alcohol and baseball have always had a charmed association. Beer is practically a synonym for the sport. Hockey scrapes Drunken Driver Pelle Lindbergh off the highway, while basketball and football shake their heads at...
By the following morning some 120 workers had donned red-and-white caps in protest, and they were consequently kicked out into the cold. Most of the suspended Santas held a rally outside the plant, singing Jingle Bells and flaunting signs that read OKONITE, HUMBUG!
December is usually no time for second thoughts about shopping. This is the merry month of mall hopping, a season of spending all the money that has been larded away -- and then some. But wait: this may not be Christmas as usual. America's jingle-jangle shopping spree seems muffled...