Word: minore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Goren system revolves around the fact that there are 40 high-card points in a deck. An opening suit bid requires 13 points, a bid is mandatory at 14 points, a partnership with 26 points should make game in a major suit (29 are needed in a minor suit), partners with 33 points should have a little slam, and 37 is the magic number for a grand slam...
...widely used bidding innovations, including the "preempt overcall" (e.g., North, one diamond; East, two spades) to show a single strong suit with little side strength, and the "unusual no trump" (e.g., North, one spade; East, pass; South, two spades; West, two no trump) asking partner to bid his better minor suit. Says Roth on bidding: "I am a revolutionary...
Boot Polish. Two quicksilver Indian kids named Baby Naaz and Rattan Kumar, as slum orphans in Bombay, pour out such a torrent of acting virtuosity that a slender fable becomes touched with the glow of a minor masterpiece (TIME, Sept...
...rare, it is being recognized more and more-but still only after death. When Barbara was six, her pediatrician found a slightly enlarged heart. It was not unusual, nor was the small heart murmur that another doctor found in Billy in infancy. Susan was also thought to have a minor heart enlargement, but all the children were healthy, energetic specimens. Their hearts seemed near normal, at least, and they suffered no undue strain or emotional upset. Their X rays and cardiograms were all "nonspecific...
...minor characters each preserve the rugged uniqueness of the mountain people: Pablo, the guerilla leader, animal-like and cowardly, dulled with wine and inactivity; Pilar, his woman, who assumes command when he no longer cares; Anselmo, the old Pacifist, who is forced to kill to support the Republic...