Word: jigging
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Central America's heady unrest swept into Nicaragua, rippled ominously around the white hilltop palace of Dictator Anastasio Somoza. In his spacious office, flanked by two ack-ack guns, a grand piano and a juke box, shrewd "Tacho" Somoza might well wonder if the jig were up. For seven years he had been Central America's most genial, least bloodthirsty dictator. But he had made all Nicaragua his racket, with opéra-bouffe trimmings. He had justified his record with a plaintive: "Godammit, I want to make sure that my family has enough to live on after...
After the armistice Alexander commanded a force of Letts and Germans which fought the Russian Reds in the Baltic. Later he visited Istanbul (where he introduced the Irish jig to the astonished Turks), moved on to India, where he got in some skirmishing on the northwest frontier. He also found time to marry beauteous Lady Margaret Diana Bingham; they have three children. A classic specimen of the English professional officer type, Alexander is self-contained, quiet, outwardly confident when the world shakes. He speaks German, French, Italian, Russian, Urdu, seems to be at home anywhere. Last fortnight, in the thick...
...Army Signal Corps brought one of the U.S. fighting fronts straight into millions of comfortable American living rooms this week. From beleaguered Anzio, Station JJRP (Jig Jig Roger Peter in Army lingo), "the toughest little radio station in the world," was relayed by RCAC to the U.S., where the four major networks rebroadcast its program. It was the first time a broadcasting station had been erected and put into continuous operation so close to the front lines...
...rumored that the faculty officers are organizing a softball team for entrance in the a forming NSCS league. Here, fellow seniors, is our chance to get even for that 11 page three hour exam of last week. Speaking of that quiz, the axe fell on every class but Jig, the latter landing more men on the "P" list than all the rest of the classes combined. Most of the perennial "P" listers are back with the boys again...
Probably responsible: some lax machinist who cut the part freehand and bored too deep, perhaps because his employer, a smalltime subcontractor, lacked a jig or automatic stop mechanism. An overrushed inspector tossed out some of the faulty parts; some he passed without tests. The fitting joined the right wing strut to the fuselage. Once it was welded into place, its weakness was hidden from final assembly inspections. But when the glider cut loose from the tow plane on its maiden flight, new stresses snapped the too-thin steel. The craft plummeted 1,500 feet...