Word: jogged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though it may help jog memories, the changeover in the base period should not, the government promises, make any difference in the percentage fluctuations shown by the indices from year to year. Thus, the rise in the Consumer Price Index from 1950 to 1960 is 23%, regardless of which base period is used. But the new base will mean a dramatic drop in the apparent level of many indicators, e.g., the Consumer Price Index for November would be 104.6 calculated on the new base v. 128.3 on tne 1947-49 base...
...tick-tock pieces, but nobody ever gave them a syncopated twist before"). Anderson, 53, writes what he calls "concert music with a pop quality"-compositions that rely heavily on acoustical effects and rarely run longer than three minutes. Most popular Anderson concert piece last season was Sleigh Ride, a jog-trotting exercise complete with sleigh bells (jingled by a percussionist) the crack of a whip (two hinged pieces of wood slapped together) and the sound of a whinnying horse (a trumpet with valves half closed...
...Gulls at rest, hardly a ripple. Suddenly, about 50 yards offshore, something breaks water. A fish? A submarine? No, just a wardrobe closet -large, well-made, decorated with a mirror, and carried by two dripping workingmen. Matter-of-factly, they lug the closet to the beach, jog the water out of their ears, pick the closet up again and head for the nearest city...
...President-elect and Cabinet were now holiday-inclined to relax and enjoy the headlines about themselves, there were plenty of other headlines-from Ethiopia to Laos-to jog them into awareness of what they were up to. Along with Postmaster Day, they will be carrying the world's most valuable mail when they begin their appointed rounds a month hence...
Bells Are Ringing. The combined skills of Comedienne Judy Holliday and Director Vincente Minnelli manage to jog and jazz a middling book and some forgettable tunes into one of the year's liveliest musicals...