Word: jigged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...assembly line are a help or a nervous strain on workers. In its last issue, the Journal of the American Medical Association reports a study by British Psychologist P. C. Wason of 15 soap-wrappers working for Manchester soapmaker Cussons, Sons & Co. Ltd., who do a strange little jig to music piped in over the plant intercom. W'ason's findings: jigging on the job is a big help both in speed and efficiency. Wrote Wason: "The movements consisted of a rhythmical swaying of the trunk backwards and forward, with rapid folding of the ends of the papers...
Chicago's Democratic machine swept the city primary last week, and porcine (245 Ibs.) Alderman Mathias Bauler, who has fattened for 40-odd years on machine politics, celebrated by dancing a jig in his favorite trough, City Hall. "Chicago," grunted happy "Paddy" Bauler, "ain't ready for reform yet." He could be wrong: next month reform will get another chance at Chicago's polls...
...turn recall his malevolence from seven points of view the seven deadly sins. In each kaleidoscopic event, they are searching for the one clue that will explain his cal nature. At the same time, however, the play is more than a search for the last place in a jig-saw puzzle. Johnson has much to say about the tendency of every man to see in others his own greatest flaw; about the difficulty of re-creating the image of a man from a variety of half-true impressions. Each narrator, whether friend or lover, sees only part of Swift...
...Senegalese professional grinned, and capered into a happy jig: "Au revoir chérie, la guerre est finie!" A French paratrooper sipped his Pernod: "In France they are happy tonight. I too am glad that no more will be killed-but there is nothing for us here to be proud of." And in Hanoi's sandbagged Citadelle, where once he had wept at the fall of Dienbienphu, General Cogny put his career on the line. "The free world has not lived up to its responsibilities," said Cogny. "There have been too many deaths for too few results, too many...
...Next he wants a jointer for cutting precise corners, which costs him $130. Then he wants something to drill deep, accurate holes, and so buys a drill press for $100. As he graduates to fancier work, and starts putting intricate filigrees in his woodwork, he needs a jig saw, and that costs $65. The heavy curved lines on his masterpieces now call for a band saw at $250. If his furniture is to have legs, he must buy a lathe for $200 to turn them. And if he really wants to turn out professional work (as he usually does...