Word: takeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trade mission, met the boy, decided to help. He went home and raised $500 from his state's Rotary Clubs. Adeline Martin, a clerical worker at the Nouasseur air-base near Casablanca, sold the Volkswagen she had won in a raffle, donated a third of her take to outfit the boy. Finally, the American Export Lines booked Abdie in the owner's stateroom aboard the S.S. Examiner. The trip...
...surveys made by the U.S.'s $29 million playing-card industry (60 million decks sold last year), the number of bridge players in the U.S. has soared from 22 million in 1940 to 35 million today, not counting the millions who study newspaper bridge columns but never take a card in hand. Over the same span, the number participating in American Contract Bridge League tournaments has exploded from 5,000 to more than 75,000. Having survived the now waning gin and canasta booms, bridge is moving ever-faster out front as the U.S.'s No. 1 card...
...this seeming powerhouse is the famed Mississippi Heart Hand that, according to legend, riverboat gamblers used to deal out to suckers in the days of bridge's ancestor, whist. Far from taking all 13 tricks with hearts as trump, the hand can take only six, because the opponent on the left holds...
...psychology. The ancestral game of whist, which still survives in English and New England villages, was bridge without bidding: the trump suit was decided on by turning up the last card dealt. Edgar Allan Poe wrote of whist: "Men of the highest order of intellect have been known to take an apparently unaccountable delight in it, while eschewing chess as frivolous." But with no bidding and no exposed hand to guide the players, the game was crude and guessy compared to modern bridge...
...Said Samuel L. Stedman, partner of Carl M. Loeb, Rhoades & Co.: "I don't see a major selloff, but this level will tempt a lot of companies into financing, and these rights offerings may take some of the upward pressure from the blue chips. Specialties should move up while the rest of the market churns...