Word: jig
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tears from Adolf. Near the end of The Rommel Papers comes a gripping chapter on Rommel's death, written by his son Manfred. After the German reverses in Normandy, Rommel was convinced the jig was up, advised Hitler repeatedly to end the war. Neither Liddell Hart nor Manfred Rommel makes it clear to what extent the general was involved in the plots against Hitler, but one day in October 1944, Rommel was at his home in Herrlingen recovering from the wounds suffered when his staff car was shot up. At about 12 o'clock, a dark green auto...
Kennedy calls the process of matchup classroom, hour, and day with the requirements of each course and section "a geographical jig-saw puzzle." He starts with a few perennially large classes that are traditionally located in Sanders Theatre or the New Lecture Hall. Then he and his assistant, Mrs. Barre, begin filling out a cross-index chart developed by her husband...
...playing with his new $500,000 building blocks. They sat in a Bronx warehouse until after his death last year, then were sold (for about $60,000) to a group of New York and Cincinnati businessmen. Last week the new owners had glad news: the work of fitting the jig-stone puzzle is under way at North Miami Beach, Fla., and the monastery should be open for business - as a tourist attraction - about a year from...
...early-round British opponents crisply praised Maureen's cannonball abandon, but also felt compelled to chalk up part of their defeats to the heat. The heat made no difference to Killer Connolly. Cool and unperturbed, despite a painfully sore shoulder, she kept dancing her little baseline jig, running her rivals ragged with hard-hit placements, only occasionally coming to the net to volley...
...rash business deals, De Récy's lust for adventure had led him into a conspiracy with four accomplices to steal the bonds. Soon afterward, the thieves had had a falling out. One of them was picked up trying to cash in the bonds, and the jig...