Word: jot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sachs called the trial of First Lieut. William L. Calley Jr. "scapegoating," saying, "He may be some kind of homicidal pervert-I don't know-but if he is, the Army picked him to take all the blame. There are a whole jot of people who have done the same shit Calley did and thought it was the best thing for their country...
...then further our amicable relations by all the means in our power, and set an example to those colleges that are yet struggling in outer darkness. If Yale men regard us as a trifle snobbish, a shade supercilious, a jot too conscientious, a tittle quixotic, and ever so little conscious of our own superiority,- let us beg them to bear with us. Although our language be strangely fastidious, our personal appearance impertinently neat, we do not, surely, mean to be insulting; and it is not without reason that we are encouraged to hope that our Yale friends will endeavor...
Died. Agustin Lara, 70, Mexico's foremost composer and lyricist; of heart and lung disease; in Mexico City. Because he could not write music, someone would stand by the piano as he played and jot down the scores of his tunes, including You Belong to My Heart, Granada and Madrid...