Word: flushes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...daytime, as they rolled through the sweltering prairie heat, they ran out of water. The toilets wouldn't flush. At night, they curled up against green-plush, straight-backed seats, fitfully brushing at insects and soot that kept pouring in the windows...
...guilty of adding any fuel to the flames of hatred and passion which, if continued to be fed, promise to burn up whatever is left by the war of decent human feeling in Europe. Allowances can be made for Mr. Churchill's statement, however unworthy, in the first flush of his victory...
Cause of the furore: Look had run a postage-stamp-size view of a Miami Beach stripteaser in the advanced throes of her art. Look's motives were studiously patriotic: to illustrate "slaphappy, flush America on a deluxe joyride" and Miami Beach's "war-dodging, business-as-usual complacency...
Points & Checks. Bidding is based on the number of points that a player can meld. Melds in Check include: four cards of a kind in different suits (four aces, 100); a flush (ace to ten in one suit), 150; a "marriage" (KQ of a suit), 20; a "pinochle" (Spade Q and Diamond J), 40. Bidding starts at 200 points, is raised in units of ten or more. A hand must be bid unless the player has no "marriage." A game ends when one team scores 1,000 points- but the team to win is the one with the most "checks...
...Conventions" in this bidding:1) North's 210 opening showed that he had at least 100 in melds, but no powerful suit; 2) East's 260 signaled that he held four aces; 3) South's jump to 400 showed his flush and other strength; 4) West's raise to 410 indicated the strength of his own flush and partner's ace protection...