Word: jigging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Impressed by his flair for the grand, vote-getting gesture, a dissident minority persuades the hero to give the big punk (Nehemiah Persoff) in the parent union a run for his expense money. But just before election time, the cops find out about those watches. So the jig's up? Nonsense. The election is won. What decent, self-respecting union man. the hero blandly wants to know, could deny his vote to a fellow who had stolen $750,000 from some great big impersonal insurance company, and then turned every last penny of it over to the working...
...Dudman of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Chicago Tribune's Jules Dubois, the New York Herald Tribune's Frank Kelly. Most were not, like the Vancouver Sun's Fashion Editor Marie Moreau, abruptly shifted from a haute couture visit in New York, to a Havana jig ("My third dancing partner casually unstrapped his .38 and placed it under his hat on the chair...
...Prospects Are Pleasing, by Honor Tracy. A satiric jig danced on the thin skin of the Irish...
...came on New Year's Eve. As he and his fellow crooks rode in a line of black Cadillacs to the army's Camp Columbia, outside Havana, for the usual New Year's Eve dinner, they did not smile. They knew that the jig, as well as the year, was up. "For the salvation of the republic," announced General Eulogio Cantillo at the end of a gloomy meal, "the military forces have decided that it is necessary for General Batista to withdraw from power...
...spectacular Atlas announcement on the second night, only one incident ruffled the traditional decorum: Belgium's veteran Ambassador Baron Robert Silvercruys, normally the very picture of diplomatic dignity, provided a giddy moment when he picked up his wife's train and did a few jolly jig steps in time to Marine Band music as the stately baroness (widow of Connecticut's late Senator Brien McMahon) strode elegantly into the East Room after dinner...