Word: spadeful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Points & Checks. Bidding is based on the number of points that a player can meld. Melds in Check include: four cards of a kind in different suits (four aces, 100); a flush (ace to ten in one suit), 150; a "marriage" (KQ of a suit), 20; a "pinochle" (Spade Q and Diamond J), 40. Bidding starts at 200 points, is raised in units of ten or more. A hand must be bid unless the player has no "marriage." A game ends when one team scores 1,000 points- but the team to win is the one with the most "checks...
Caught in the middle of this spite war, like an innocent bystander, was mild Ben Cohen, almost the only early New Dealer left in Washington, and for the past two years chief counsel for War Mobilizer Byrnes. Having done much of the spade work on Dumbarton Oaks, able legalist Ben Cohen had coveted the now-vacant job of counselor to the State Department. Furthermore he had been offered the job by Secretary of State Stettinius...
General Peyton Conway March, wrinkled, spade-bearded, soldier-straight, World War I U.S. Chief of Staff, who said on his 79th birthday last year that an Allied victory in Europe in 1944 was "not in the cards," reached 80 and sounded off again. "There is no escaping the fact that the situation [Rundstedt's attack] is very serious. . . . Our intelligence service broke down completely. They appear to have been unaware of a German force of 200,000 men. . . . Imagine the population of Richmond [200,000] being assembled across the Potomac and we not knowing about it." Asked to predict...
...articles I have read, I get the impression that all men of the armed forces use an odd slang in which nothing is referred to by its right name. I can't speak for the Army, but so far as I have observed in the Marine Corps, a spade is a spade. Viz., potatoes are potatoes, bread is bread, catsup (when we have it) is catsup...
...tried to minimize the whole affair. Said able, cool Louis Stephen St. Laurent, Minister of Justice: ". . . a group of from one-tenth to one-half of one percent of the population [of Quebec] should not be taken too seriously. . . . Senator Bouchard is one of those who assert that a spade should be called a spade but sometimes . . . he is apt to refer to such an implement as a steam shovel...