Word: jingo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Latin Jazz has been on the rise. If you want to see what the talk's about come see the Brazilian guitarist Fernando Brandao and the Jingo Trio at the Regattabar in the Charles Hotel...
EVERY TIME I SEE A FAVORITE WOODLAND area laid waste for yet another shopping mall, I gnash my teeth and think, Well, I have just lived too long and become a moss-backed old grump. But by jingo, it ain't true! Your Hubble space photos have put the wonderment back into my life! What's a little more concrete on an obscure planet circling a minor star compared to the crushing and splendiferous grandeur of all that's going on out there? WALTER MITCHELL JR. Dunwoody, Georgia...
John Wayne, or possibly John Rambo, was still ghosting around some American imaginations last week. A banner stretched across I-75 in north Georgia -- a route the 101st Airborne traveled from Fort Campbell, Ky. -- gave the troopers a parting thought: GET THEIR GAS AND KICK THEIR ASS. Adrenaline, jingo and doubt mingled with sheer weirdness and a sort of emergency-issue nostalgia, as if Americans were rummaging through old LIFE magazines, dipping back into the lore of World War II to discover the styles of leave taking, of sweethearts' goodbyes. Television-news shows offered small touches of the USO, airing...