Word: goren
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...closed by the 1845 law prohibiting chemmy and almost all other forms of card playing for stakes. After almost a century of chemmyless absence from the London scene. Crockford's reopened near its old location as a staid, serious bridge club, numbered among its members U.S. Ace Charles Goren and Britain's Iain (Bridge fs an Easy Game) Macleod, new chairman of the Conservative Party, who resigned from the club in a huff last fortnight when Crockford's launched its new gambling casino...
...SPORTS ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF BRIDGE, by Charles Goren; illustrated...
...hustler, Hesburgh likes to work until 2 in the morning with Bach or Brahms humming away on his office stereo set. He speaks six languages, has a passion for fishing and flying. He and Notre Dame's executive vice president, Father Edmund Joyce, once licked Bridge Expert Charles Goren. Nowadays his playtime is limited. He is the Vatican's permanent representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency, a member of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, and this year's president of the Association of American Colleges, where his Roman collar no longer stamps him as an outsider...
...Goren's astonishment, Moyse led the diamond king, with the notion that it was a brilliant and unorthodox play. Declarer Harmon threw off a spade in the dummy, winning the first trick with his ace, played the queen and jack of diamonds (discarding two more spades in dummy), and went on to make the contract, losing only West's two trumps and the spade...
...Goren says, even the experts go wrong - and the duffers keep tuning...