Word: jig
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some point during the afternoon of the fourth day, Challe knew that the jig was up. As a last, desperate measure, he started passing out arms to civilians in Algiers. But the ultras were not eager to fight. As police loyal to De Gaulle and a regiment of Zouaves (a mixed French and Moslem light infantry outfit) moved into Algiers at 11 p.m., the ultra announcer on Radio Algiers cried: "We are being betrayed! To the Forum!" At the Forum, a large square in front of Algiers' General Government Building, a crowd of 25,000 diehard Europeans milled about...
...pushed it a full 12 ft. past the cup. A return putt was wide. Palmer finished with an incredible double-bogey six, slipped into a second-place tie (worth $12,000) with fast-closing Amateur Coe. New Masters Champion Player gulped his drink, embraced his wife, danced a delirious jig...
Married. Martyn Green, 61, ebullient British-born Gilbert and Sullivan star who lost his left leg in an agonizing penknife amputation after it became wedged in an elevator shaft in 1959, but returned to the stage with an artificial limb and danced a jig in Knights of Song; and Yvonne Chauveau, 39, a model; he for the third time, she for the second; in Rowayton, Conn...
...hunt-and-peck speed on the typewriter, drives his own car to work. Murray Nemser, his backbone fused rigid by war injuries, does a full day's work estimating contract bids while stretched out on a mobile cot beside his desk. A one-armed man, using a special jig, performs a delicate soldering job. Women with arthritic-weakened wrists wind wires with the aid of an Abilities-designed machine that speeds up the job so effectively that other companies are buying it for regular workers. Other employees work in pairs, match their abilities and disabilities to the job, turn...
Tunes of Glory (Colin Lesslie; Lopert). Up at the castle the pipers are piping a jig for Jock Sinclair. Rank: acting C.O. of a Highland battalion. Origin: wrong side of Glasgow. Military record: rose through the ranks, took command of the battalion at El Alamein. led it to glory. Personal data: has hair like ginger and a temper to match. Remarks: Jock loves the battalion, the battalion loves Jock, and the paughty people who see this picture will love him too. because Jock Sinclair is one of the most lifelike creatures that ever sprang full-snooted from the jovial brow...