Word: lustiest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...result, the latest California Poll shows that Reagan now holds only a hairsbreadth lead, 46% to 43%. A more direct popularity test came last week when both candidates and the usual panoply of show-biz celebrities rode in a parade commemorating Los Angeles' 185th anniversary. The lustiest cheers by far were for someone named Bob Hope...
...buccaneering days of the 17th century, Jamaica was the lustiest port of call on the Spanish Main. Out of old Port Royal, in its time the "wickedest city in Christendom," Henry Morgan and his marauding mates sailed to wreck and plunder. On their return, the pirates swaggered through the narrow streets with barrels of rum on their shoulders, harlots on their arms, daggers in their belts and ill-gotten pieces of eight in their pockets. An appalled visitor once described it as a place where "the body of a murdered man would remain in a dancing room until the dancing...
...necessity to raise exports, which currently bring in a meager 4% of the U.S. gross national product, promises to spark the lustiest congressional fight of 1962; it will come over President Kennedy's bid for sweeping new powers to negotiate tariff reductions with the European nations. If the President wins his battle, U.S. businessmen will be presented with their broadest new market-and toughest new competition-since the 13 original states erased their tariffs against one another...
...comfort for novelists, short story writers, dramatists, Hollywood and TV hacks. Now Boccaccio has been set to the dance. At Italy's Nervi Festival, Russian-born Choreographer Leonide Massine last week presented the premiere of his Human Comedy, a three-hour interpretation of nine of Boccaccio's lustiest tales...