Word: jigging
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...self-therapy, he can "get this place going," as the tramp caretaker puts it. The elder brother believes that his salvation lies in building a workshop in the yard, but he is finicky about using only "good wood," and he gets to a hardware store so belatedly that the jig saw he needs is "gone." The tramp plans to make a trip to a nearby town for some personal papers that will clarify his identity, yet he repeatedly puts it off because his shoes and the weather are not quite right. The younger brother believes that he himself will forge...
...then fall back in a slack-limbed pantomime of despair. To a suddenly quickened rhythm, a Negro dancer bounds onstage, is quickly surrounded by mocking, finger-snapping whites. For a time they applaud his acrobatics, then stare stonily as he wanders pathetically away. As a new stageful of dancers jig in a mechanistic imitation of gaiety, they are suddenly obscured by a billowing drop decorated with atomic symbols. At ballet's end the music breaks off with chill abruptness, leaving the original four dancers staring blankly at the audience over the footlights...
...London editor of the Liverpool Evening Express, a brash young man whose hair broke over a "rather high brow in embarrassing, almost girlish waves." At 29, he became editor of the Daily Express, second-largest daily in the Western world (after the London Daily Herald). In jig time, Christiansen had the Express in front, although it was later overtaken by the London Daily Mirror. Before a heart attack forced him into retirement, Express circulation doubled...
...some point during the afternoon of the fourth day, Challe knew that the jig was up. As a last, desperate measure, he started passing out arms to civilians in Algiers. But the ultras were not eager to fight. As police loyal to De Gaulle and a regiment of Zouaves (a mixed French and Moslem light infantry outfit) moved into Algiers at 11 p.m., the ultra announcer on Radio Algiers cried: "We are being betrayed! To the Forum!" At the Forum, a large square in front of Algiers' General Government Building, a crowd of 25,000 diehard Europeans milled about...
...hunt-and-peck speed on the typewriter, drives his own car to work. Murray Nemser, his backbone fused rigid by war injuries, does a full day's work estimating contract bids while stretched out on a mobile cot beside his desk. A one-armed man, using a special jig, performs a delicate soldering job. Women with arthritic-weakened wrists wind wires with the aid of an Abilities-designed machine that speeds up the job so effectively that other companies are buying it for regular workers. Other employees work in pairs, match their abilities and disabilities to the job, turn...