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Word: jig (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...guest-room bed, while neatly made, was warm between the sheets. The room's carpet was loose in one corner. The cops pulled it up, yanked away some loose planking. There, in a two-foot-deep nook, lay a burly man dressed only in his underwear. "The jig's up," said he calmly. "I knew you were bound to find me some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: The Buccaneer | 4/28/1952 | See Source »

...jig was up. "Yes, I have," Bohling confessed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: The Wurst Tragedy | 3/17/1952 | See Source »

...months later, Mary Dansereau is the only human with a part-plastic heart. She will have to take life easy for a while, but even before she left the hospital she felt so much better that she was able to kick up a little jig...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Part-Plastic Heart | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

...Jig or Juliett The pronouncing alphabet worked out by the armed services of the U.S., Britain & Canada in World War II gave many a foreign pilot cause to stutter and stammer. Last week the International Civil Aviation Organization, which sets stand ard international radio procedures around the world, brought out a new alphabet which it believed would be more universally pronounceable. The old and the new : OLD NEW Able Alfa Baker Bravo Charlie Coca Dog Delta Easy Echo Fox Foxtrot George Golf How Hotel Item India Jig Juliett King Kilo Love Lima Mike Metro Nan Nectar Oboe Oscar Peter Papa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Jig or Juliett | 3/3/1952 | See Source »

...President Marion LeRoy Burton of the University of Michigan told a convocation: "You students are lazy. You loaf, you gamble." TIME carried his remarks in the March 24 issue, with a footnote recalling that Hamlet had berated his young contemporaries in Elsinore with the words: "You jig, you amble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Nov. 12, 1951 | 11/12/1951 | See Source »

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