Word: ace-high
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...flop—9, Jack, King. All clubs. Worst case scenario I have a pair of Kings, but I’m one club shy of an Ace-high flush. Nothing can beat that, right? Flush beats straight, right? My mind races over the permutations but all I see are clubs...
...word "vitamine" had just been coined, but nobody had yet found one. By stuffing his animals with various food extracts, McCollum identified the first one -"A"-in butter. This made him ace-high with Wisconsin dairy farmers-until he broadcast the fact that it could be added to margarine. The word vitamine had its last letter chopped off and the family grew apace. After vitamin A came
...Chile rates ace-high with the U.S. President Gabriel González Videla's democratic regime appeals to the State Department because it seeks political stability. Its well-conceived, well-prepared blueprints for national resources development make sense to U.S. lending agencies and Point Four planners. Result: since the war the U.S. has lent Chile a total of $86.7 million...
...field, at least, the Russians were still ace-high with Americans last week. Billboard magazine reported that their classical composers led the U.S. hit parade in 1947. And the most popular of them all was Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky. Victor listed his Nutcracker Suite, Piano Concerto No. 1 and Violin Concerto among its top best-selling classical albums of the year, and Nutcracker was one of Columbia's big sellers...
Unfortunately, it is the story of this ace-high comedy which has been continually discussed: how Ginger has to get back home to Stevenson, Iowa, and fakes her age for a half-fare ticket, is caught by the conductor, takes Major Ray Milland for the well-known ride, weekends as his guest at Wallace Military Academy, straightens out his love life, and finally ends up at home in an anti-climactic finale...