Word: jigging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They worked so effectively that the 2,000 tons of Communist infantry weapons that Arbenz imported last month were worthless-and he had no fighter planes of his own. As fear and tension grew in Guatemala, it became plain that the Communist jig...
...colonial route leading to Hanoi. It was jammed by tens of thousands of Communist coolies and Russian-made Molotov trucks, and they escaped notice in the turbulent swarm. On the third night, however, they ran up against a check point where they could not give the password, and the jig was up. Workers Like Ants. Punishment was light-their shoes were confiscated for two days, during which they had to march. The Reds' view was that the escape try had been stupid rather than criminal. One officer explained: "Of course, you're fresh from colonial slavery...
Republicans over the nation had just about given up the special election in California's 24th Congressional District, a jig-sawed piece of Los Angeles County. The district usually votes Republican, but two members of that party were running, and each was expected to get about half the G.O.P. vote...
...jig is about up. Dr. Rock has his last joke about Fallon and Broom: "They are corpse-diviners. Or, as some have green fingers for gardening, so they have black fingers for death." Then the police, the trial, disgrace. Dr. Rock himself is saved from trial by influential colleagues who have had dealings with body snatchers themselves. But life in Edinburgh is hardly bearable for a man, how ever innocent, when the desperately poor sing in the streets...
...individual episodes themselves are sometimes magnificently caught. There is the cold insanity of the wounded moray as it fights the spear, and glares hate from what is surely the most evil eye in creation. There is the merry jig of the infant octopus, no bigger than a finger, as it watches the underwater world it will inherit through the lucent membrane of its natal sac. There is the grave pavane of the beruffled nudibranchs, tiny fish that swirl among moving fronds like bright dancers in an oriental court. And there is the fish that walks, the fish that is nothing...