Word: jigging
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...peace. He thought that big men, powerful men like himself should save the peace. By his own account he trotted back & forth between Göring and Chamberlain, doing all he could for peace in our time. When the German-Soviet Pact was announced, Wenner-Gren knew the jig was up. Three days before the war's outbreak he sailed in the Southern Cross. After the Athenia rescue he sailed to his island in the Bahamas...
...From an unpainted shack near Tampa came J. Andrew Tatro, displaying a "biscuit" of "rubber" produced (said he) in jig-time from a mysterious hybrid of two latex-bearing plants, suitable for Florida cultivation. Only J. Andrew and his son Andrew Orvill know the secret...
President Roosevelt, who wanted a new and better name for the war, could take his pick of suggestions. Letters fluttered into the White House by thousands. Names ranged from flat pomposities like "The Freeman's War" to flat gags like "JIG War" (Japan, Italy, Germany-and their jig will be up soon...
...over the U.S. next week more than half a million teen-age youngsters will go to work with jig and band saws on 500,000 model planes. Not toys-these will be planes for the Army, Navy and OCD. The model-planes program is to provide gunners and spotters with accurate miniatures of 20 types of planes, including U.S.Japanese, German, Italian and British. The Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics and the Office of Education are joint sponsors of the idea...
...week's end the British were getting reinforcements into action. They reported the situation somewhat more in control. The jig was not up yet, by a good haul...