Word: jig
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from the city fathers of the "Winter Golf Capital of the World" (pop. 15,000). Grinning, Ike brandished the putter, climbed aboard a helicopter to fly 14 air miles to the hastily spruced-up Allen home. The housekeeper, Mrs. Emmet Reed, had opened the three-bedroom stucco bungalow in jig time, adding womanly bowls of flowers. But Ike's party was strictly a stag affair. With him, besides Host Allen and Press Secretary Jim Hagerty, were Coca-Cola's Chairman Bill Robinson and Freeman Gosden, original Amos of radio's Amos 'n' Andy...
...combination of mystery and sublimity that survives the most dreary Shavian bathos when read with half an ear and half a soul, is turned by its current interpreters into a distracted pandering for tepid chuckles. Mr. Clurman has caused the weird chant to be accompanied by a jolly jig, and Maurice Evans delivers Shotover's curtain line with a phlegmy ingratiation that completely drains it of grandeur...
...editor and another to be president, White was handed both hats. Moreover, he will name a managing editor and business manager of his own choosing. Says he: "My neck is out. I'm either going to hang or dance." If he dances, it could be a mighty merry jig, both for Bob White and the New York Herald Tribune...
...Nevertheless, when assigned to Korean waters aboard the destroyer Cayuga, he performed such prodigies of battle surgery -an emergency amputation, the extraction of a bullet from the heart sac itself -that Cyr's story was published in Canadian newspapers. The real Dr. Cyr heard about it, and the jig...
Wearing rumpled blue cotton pajamas, Prime Minister Fidel Castro thumbed through his press clippings one morning last week and danced a little jig in his suite at Manhattan's Statler Hilton Hotel. "You see," he cried, "they are beginning to understand us better." On his two-week U.S. tour, Cuba's gregarious boss drew bales of friendly notices and crushing crowds wherever he showed his beard. "I come to speak to the public opinion," said Castro somewhere in every speech. "I speak the truth...