Word: hand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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 the object is to match up the cards and get out fast; in Canasta the idea is to stay in and roll the score...
...life. The M.N.R. elected nine deputies, and its candidates ran second in many districts of the country. On election night its partisans tangled with pro-Hertzog paraders under the lampposts in La Paz' Plaza Murillo, where Villaroel had been hanged. By the time the government got things in hand (Hertzog declared a sixth state of siege), eleven Bolivians were dead, 81 injured...
Father Like Son. At the head of the stretch, with Capot at his throat, Olympia gave up. Capot opened a three-length lead and seemed to have the race in hand. Palestinian, now his nearest rival, wasn't gaining. Olympia had faded out of contention...
...full-time publisher to get promotion, advertising and editorial departments working together to plug the magazine. With his Philadelphia Inquirer, pulps (Official Detective Stories and Gags) and a string of daily racing forms, he was too busy to do the job himself, but Alice Thompson seemed just the hand to entrust it to. To fill her old spot he snagged pretty, blonde Andrée Vilas, 34, once editor of Junior Bazaar, then managing editor of Glamour, and currently managing editor of Charm...
From payments already received Rutgers will build a $1,000,000 Institute of Microbiology (study of living organisms too small for the naked eye to see) on the campus at New Brunswick. Also on hand or in sight is $250,000 from the Waksman gift to be used for the institute's operating expenses. Dr. Waksman, on the Rutgers staff for more than 25 years, will be the institute's director...