Word: jollyness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The advertisement in the Boston Gazette made it sound like a holiday: "All those jolly fellows who love their country and want to make their fortune at one stroke, to repair immediately to the Rendezvous at the head of Hancock's Wharf, where they will be received with a...
Rascally they may be, but the privateersmen are providing the embargo-ridden American economy with badly needed supplies and giving employment to thousands of Americans thrown out of work by the British blockade. Privateering was legalized throughout the Colonies by the Continental Congress only this past March, and today the...
Why then did Honest Pleasure's trainer, LeRoy Jolley, not look so jolly after the race? For one thing, the colt did not win the Blue Grass in his customary runaway style. His time was poor (1:49 2/5% for the 1⅛% mile) and his margin a mere...
Gerald Ford is playing the jolly Santa Claus, like any other incumbent who wishes to stay in office for some more presidential Christmases. As shrewdly and crudely as Lyndon Johnson or Richard Nixon ever did, he is doling out patronage and pork to goad, frighten and lead Republicans to support...
Violent Transition. In the battle of the psychiatrists that followed, the defense led off with a respected authority on thought control: Dr. Louis Jolyon ("Jolly") West, 51, chairman of the psychiatry department at U.C.L.A. and director of the university's Neuropsychiatric Institute. West was certainly an eye-filling witness...