Word: jigging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact, says Arp, Dada was dedicated art: "My gouaches, reliefs, plastics were an attempt to teach man what he had forgotten-to dream with his eyes open." Using a jig saw, he made inexpensive wood reliefs around such motifs as forks and mustaches (a favorite theme he has found laughable ever since he watched German soldiers primping for the Kaiser's birthday). Discovering that the laws of chance underlie much in nature, Arp turned out a series of paste-ups produced by letting bits of paper float down upon a glue-coated board. Later he meticulously executed paper cutouts...
...from the north, south and east, tried to box the Nationalists against the mainland. The Sabre jets were outnumbered, 100 to 32. But in a stop-and-go, five-hour battle that extended along a 400-mile arc along the coast (and 50 miles inland), the Sabres danced a jig around the MIGs. When the Nationalist pilots rolled back to Taipei to be saluted with firecrackers and garlanded with flowers, the scorecard read: ten MIGs downed, at least three others crippled. Nationalist losses: none...
Overall, the recession hit bottom in April 1958 in the jig time of nine months-two months faster than the 1949 recession and a full four months sooner than in 1954. At times, particularly during February and March, the current slide was sharper than in the other two recessions. But so was the upturn. Gross national product has apparently turned around after dropping for two quarters, v. a year of backing and filling in 1949 and a year of decline in the 1954 business downturn. Industrial production recovered in eight months, v. eleven months and twelve months before any steady...
Junketing about North Korea last week, Chinese Premier Chou En-lai inspected a fertilizer factory, improvised a five-minute jig for North Korean Premier Kim II Sung, and announced that the horde of "Chinese People's volunteers" who volunteered into the Korean war in 1950 would volunteer themselves back to China again by the end of the year. Of course, he continued, "this confronts the U.S. with an inescapable obligation to similarly withdraw...
...Alabama's Racist State Senator Sam Engelhardt Jr., if you can't lick 'em, the best thing to do is scatter 'em. Panicky because Negro vote strength was rising in his county seat of Tuskegee (pop. 6,700), Engelhardt last May authored a gerrymander that jig-sawed more than 400 Negro residents-and the respected Negro Tuskegee Institute-outside the city's limits. Forthwith, the city of Tuskegee was hard hit by a Negro boycott (TIME, July 8) that slashed white merchants' business 50%, shut down stores that depended primarily on Negro trade. Incensed...