Word: jig
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...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...
...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...
...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...
...Gambler Harry Gross, 34, decided the jig was up. His old employees had spilled details of his $20 million-a-year bookmaking business (TIME, Oct. 9), were beginning to tell all about his tie-up with New York cops. (Semimonthly protection payments were so big "it took two men to carry the money.") In a Brooklyn court, dapper Harry Gross pleaded guilty to 66 counts of bookmaking and conspiracy for which he could be fined $33,500, thrown into jail for 68 years. Said one of Harry's boys bitterly: "Harry's taking the rap for the whole...
Industry, strong in its World War II expansion, poured out such a flood of civilian goods that the shelves were restocked in jig time. Panic-buying gradually subsided; prices had had but an imperceptible rise...