Word: trumping
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...outset, whoever can place the largest number of square pegs in round holes becomes the "Government." Then cards are dealt around. Each player in turn presents his card, which is marked "Coal," "Gas," "Transport," "Steel," or the name of some other industry. Then the "Government" player presents his trump card, "Nationalisation," and takes his opponents' cards, handing them scraps of paper of dubious value in return...
Kraft TV Theater (Wed. 9 p.m., NBC-TV). James Bridie's The Last Trump...
...turned out to be Stanley Spencer's Resurrection, a large and rowdy panorama of an English country graveyard at. the last trump (TIME, May 8). Last week, oldtimers were flooding the London press with protests. Wrote a Daily Telegraph reader: "If the Chantrey trustees, impervious to public opinion, choose to exhibit these abnormal pictures, may I pray their hanging committee may hang beside them...
...passive resistance of the peasants to the socialization of the land, admirable as it is in many ways, is likely to crumble slowly. Tito holds too many trump cards...