Word: ginning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crucifixion. The jokers are "fools for Christ." A booklet accompanying the deck suggests variations on standard games. "Go Fish" becomes "Go Seek." "War" becomes "Peace" (though the higher card still wins). "I Doubt It" becomes "I Believe." There are also "Inspirational Solitaire" and "Gospel Bridge," and a variation of gin rummy called "Witness" that requires the winner to read aloud the Scripture texts on the winning cards. U.S. Games' next project: a Moses deck...
...have their urine analyzed, their baggage searched by M.P.s and sniffed by dope-attuned dogs, and their bodies frisked before they are finally herded into Waiting Room A or Waiting Room B. There they sit restlessly on orange plastic chairs, staring at travel posters, talking little, some playing hearts, gin rummy or chess until flight time is finally announced...
England has given Noel Coward to the musical stage, the Beatles to rock and Mantovani to schmalz. But try as it might, it has not been able to make a major contribution to that indigenous American art form, jazz. Except, that is, for gin and Cleo Laine...
...electric wheelchairs and home elevators, not provided by Britain's national health. On the other side was Distillers, one of Britain's largest and most profitable businesses, with assets of nearly $1 billion. Distillers makes most of the world's top-selling brands of whisky and gin and owns a host of subsidiaries. At one time these included the pharmaceutical company-since sold-that marketed thalidomide under the name of Distaval until the drug was withdrawn from the market...
...eventually takes his son to Coney Island and makes a mess of it by turning ride into a puberty rise that neither can stomach. The result is a traumatized child and a vomiting father Fogarty finishes off the weekend playing Monopoly and slugging gin on the sly at the local AA chapter, and finally pursuing what he thinks is the White While in a rowboat on the Central Park lagoon," "It made little difference when the thing barked," the story ends, "Fogarty was back in action...