Word: jigging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ingenuous young lady who seems to have been as fond of her priest as her husband. Once in the astral world, she says she saw a lot of Father John, but Brian wasn't around much. She knows a few Irish songs, can dance an old Irish Mourning Jig, and doesn't like to cooperate when Bernstein, over-eager for the facts, asks her to spell things for him. For all Bridey's pleasantness, however, she is selling, the jacket notes, on "an unusual 12-inch long-playing record . . . available at record shops anywhere...
...Jig to Juliett...
...first to break the news to the Senate. Grabbing a hold-for-release text of the veto message from the A.P. wire, he strode onto the floor and read it off (thereby breaking the 2 p.m. release time). Political radarscopes began blipping wildly. "I'm dancing a jig," cried Republican Senator Alexander Wiley, who bases his hopes for re-election in gas-consuming Wisconsin on his opposition to the bill. Then Wiley left the chamber literally to perform his jig for photographers...
...Despite a government offer of 5? to each flag-waving child, comparatively few Burmans turned out to greet the visitors. Those who did (100,000, more or less) showed up in organized groups and sat stolidly on curbs or campstools in bemused curiosity, whooping it up with impromptu jig steps only when Russian cameras were on them. But despite a rigidly observed Buddhist teetotalism at all official functions and banquets, the visitors struggled manfully to display their vaunted ebullience. At Rangoon's town hall, Comrades Khrushchev, Bulganin and Burma's Premier U Nu all joined hands together...
Calming the Clamor. Ever since the government published its inadequate white paper (TIME, Oct. 3), the press has clamored for more explanations. Who protected and promoted Burgess and Maclean? Who tipped them off that the jig was up? Who let them escape...