Word: jig
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Belfast, a 110-lb. Irishman named Rinty Monaghan, who trains on goats' milk, became the world's flyweight boxing king. He creamed Jackie Paterson, a Scotsman, in the seventh round and Paterson sagged to the floor. As he was being counted out, Rinty did an enthusiastic jig in his corner, then led the crowd in singing When Irish Eyes Are Smiling. The celebration continued at Rinty's home until a wellwisher, while demonstrating "how I would have handled Paterson," accidentally knocked the new champion cold...
...field and the down-to-earth mechanisms within it typifies his outlook. For nation-forming inherently requires planning, he insists with a sideswipe at "the fluffy talk of the last 15 years which had to be sloughed off for the sake of something really important at the core." The jig isn't up: "this way they won't label me a planner and I can get my work done." People got awfully excited about a word. Gaus is a scholar alive with excitement about the thing happening...
After lunch, Jacqueline Gordon was still playing hard. But the Babe had changed to her old blue corduroy slacks, and she had her game under control. She cinched the championship on the 32nd green. As she went into a victory jig, a bystander asked her the inevitable question about the secret of her success and got a far-from-inevitable answer. Cracked the Babe: "I just loosen my girdle and let the ball have...
...missing the last commuter train to suburban White Plains, one Elmer Patrick Gargan turned to relatives for help. To by-pass telephone-struck domestic exchanges, he called his aunt in Eire over the less-snarled overseas circuit, asked her to relay a message home. The call went through in jig time: Manhattan to Eire to White Plains. Cost: $12 for three minutes...
...date, the alert neophyte can learn a little about his environment--if he is skilled at assembling jig-saw puzzles. If he has time for the more thoughtful courses in history, literature, and the fine arts, he will not clude Sam Adams, nor West nor Bullfinch, nor the Mathers, nor Holmes, Thoreau and Emerson. If he leans toward economics, he will learn something about how New England makes its living. He may even get some visual education, as from the field trips which Professor Black promotes to the farms and forests of the region...