Word: cardrooms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from the fact that it is a partnership game, requiring that North and South, East and West inform each other of their card holdings through bidding. The 1929 edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica warned that contract bridge, then in its infancy, was "not a good game for the club cardroom" because "coordination between two partners is very necessary" and "not always easily obtained." Nearly all experts agree that bidding is the really important and difficult part of bridge. And even Goren's bitterest enemies in the cutthroat world of professional bridge admit that he is an alltime great bidder...
...Ledra Palace hotel apparently set aside its cardroom for the meeting. Genially, the tall, full-bearded archbishop greeted his tough-minded antagonist, quickly offered a compromise plan: the Greek Cypriots would give up their demand for an immediate plebiscite if the British would promise the islanders eventual self-determination on a gradual but steady schedule. Once the Cypriots' right to decide their own future is recognized, said the archbishop, he would be willing to collaborate with colonial authorities in framing an interim constitution. By his acts-and omissions-in the growing dispute over Cyprus, the archbishop had proved...