Word: trumps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Turkey should choose neutrality against Allied wishes, Saracoglu will need all his underlying toughness, for the Allies have trump cards...
...spades. He then runs three hearts, winding up with the lead in his own hand. He then leads a small diamond to the jack and returns the queen, overtaking it. The ace of diamonds is now led, and West has the choice of putting in a trump or discarding a club. If he trumps. North overtrumps, takes out all the trumps with three leads and all the diamonds in the South hand are good. If West discards a club, North trumps with the deuce of spades, leads the king of clubs (South discards a diamond), then a small club, which...
...four months barrel-bellied Leon Henderson devoted himself: 1) to Havana, Mexico and California, 2) to restoring his bridge reputation as "the best goddam no-trump player in the world," 3) to blocking traffic in such cities of narrow streets as Acapulco by strolling down them in an enormous Mexican sombrero and multicolored fringed scrape, followed by from 20 to 30 small boys, to whom he would occasionally toss a handful of centavos. The four months totally cured his acute case of Washingtonitis...
They were a powerful trump in Doenitz' hand; for, even when inactive, they immobilized the greater part of Britain's Home Fleet, plus some U.S. vessels which could have been in action elsewhere...
Menzel and Jacoby dominated practically the entire play and it was only rarely that Hyde and Burditt had a chance to show their playing merits. When they got the chance, the Gold Dust Twins acquitted themselves very well, but after the first hand, which Jacoby played for six no trump, the result was a foregone conclusion. This hand, incidentally, was perhaps the most spectacular played all evening. The three-rubber total was 2220 points for the Navy team...