Word: ende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...game uses a double deck with four jokers-108 cards. The jokers and all deuces are wild. Red treys are bonus cards, worth 100 extra points. Black treys, by contrast, are purely defensive cards, and can be melded only when the player goes out at the end of a game. In the scoring, a canasta (literally, basket) is a seven-card meld, and if a player makes it the hard way (using no wild cards), the bonus is 500 points. Scoring can run into the thousands in a single hand; 5,000 points is game. In most forms of rummy...
Alberto Dodero laid a course toward the big time when as a young man he moved from Montevideo to Buenos Aires and added to the family business a freighter bought on credit. He quickly gathered headway. At the end of World War I, with a credit of $10 million, he got 148 surplus U.S. ships, resold them at a handsome profit. Then he bought into the Mihanovich Line in his adopted Argentina, owned it 15 years later. By World War II, Dodero had over 300 ships, plus a choice assortment of real estate and other properties...
...days later the Riot Act was rescinded; at week's end, peace of a kind still reigned in Asbestos. But the strike had caused reverberations far beyond Asbestos; it had set off a crisis between church & state in Quebec...
...name of charity, to aid the strikers through Sunday church collections. Before the commission's report was published, three Duplessis ministers went to Ottawa and appealed to the Canadian Papal Delegate, Ildebrando Antoni-utti, to intervene. The answer they got was indicated at week's end by Quebec Archbishop Maurice Roy, who asked the commission statement be read in all pulpits and that strike collections be taken every Sunday until further notice...
...athlete and 2) none of the other kids in his Philadelphia neighborhood ever wanted to catch. In his junior year at Simon Gratz High School (where he had already won letters in baseball, football, basketball and track), the Negro Bacharach Giants offered him $50 a weekend. That was the end of school as far as Campy was concerned. After he left the Bacharach Giants, he went with the Baltimore Elite Giants, backstopped in the eastern U.S., Puerto Rico, Mexico, Venezuela and Cuba in the next few years...