Word: jig
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weaker or more rational man might have conceded by now that the jig was up. But Argentina's Vice President, Minister of War and Secretary of Labor conceded nothing. By hook or by crook, he was still determined to be elected President...
...debate on how close the Ger mans came to reversing the tide of war in the Ardennes breakthrough, General Ike said flatly: the professional German soldiers knew the jig was up on the third day of the breakthrough. On that day von Rundstedt found out "he could not go where he intended" (i.e., Liege...
This week the Wanous-Brown program passed its first anniversary. Not an inkwell had yet been thrown. The classes have spread to union hiring halls, high schools, other aircraft plants. Last week labor and management were still equally enthusiastic. Said O. G. Lompe, a Douglas jig builder and C.I.O. shop steward, "Sure, we like the class. They give us the straight facts. ..." Said Supervisor Robert Kennedy, in charge of building C-47s: "Yes sir, I learned a helluva lot." Said President Donald Douglas: "Most grievances grow from misunderstanding. When we learn how to analyze and understand the other fellow...
...very end of the bitter campaign for Leyte, the Japs kept at their old tricks. The jig was up, but still some of them filtered into a regimental command post of the 32nd Division on a foully dark night. Their helmets were daubed with phosphorous paint for identification. But in close-quarter brawls, many helmets were knocked...
...Lapham, roly-poly mayor of San Francisco, raced his sedan through the city and across Golden Gate Park toward the University of California Hospital; in the back seat was his expectant daughter, Mrs. Ernst Ophuls, comforted by Mrs. Lapham. He got to the hospital's emergency exit in jig-time, only to find it locked, had to sprint up a flight of stairs to get the gate opened, then went off in search of hospital attendants. The stork won the race: when His Honor returned to the car, he found he was a grandfather for the tenth time...