Word: informing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Problems of Partnership. Much of bridge's complexity-and fascination-derives from the fact that it is a partnership game, requiring that North and South, East and West inform each other of their card holdings through bidding. The 1929 edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica warned that contract bridge, then in its infancy, was "not a good game for the club cardroom" because "coordination between two partners is very necessary" and "not always easily obtained." Nearly all experts agree that bidding is the really important and difficult part of bridge. And even Goren's bitterest enemies in the cutthroat...
Allow me to inform you that someone spilled some water colors on the pages of your Aug. 4 Art section...
...colleagues. We have studied the principles of socialism, Communism, the M.R.P., the European Unionists, and we have adopted principles which correspond to the needs of Africa today." Chief need of Africa: "Lots of capital. But to attract it we must inspire confidence in investors. Our responsibility is to inform the African people of their responsibility in this matter...
...called on Hussein at his heavily defended palace. Hussein asked for sufficient aid to withstand the revolutionary fires being fanned from Baghdad, Damascus and Cairo, pleaded that the U.S. not recognize the new Iraqi regime "at least, for the time being." It was Murphy's unpleasant duty to inform Hussein of two hard facts: 1) no U.S. troops will be sent to Jordan; 2) U.S. recognition of Iraq was already decided upon. Then Murphy bid his host goodbye, drove off to Jerusalem and passed through the Mandelbaum Gate into Israel...
Although many students have telephones after the first week, the eight messengers are still kept busy carrying notes to inform young women that their dates have arrived. This Service makes it unnecessary to shout "Hey, Susie," when trying to get in touch with a dormitory resident, Miss Williston noted, terming the Message Service "one of our most important functions...