Hints and tips:
...Players reluctant to make such a bid cited the singleton and doubleton holdings in the major suits, but this is not valid....
...If West holds a singleton club, and East the singleton Q♥, there is nothing to be done but, if West holds a doubleton club, this may seal off East from being able to regain the lead....
...One method might be to lay down A♦ in case West holds a singleton K♦ but, here, this fails, as West’s ♦J74 becomes a third-round winner....
...Perhaps South can overcome a 4-1 trump break if there is a singleton honour, but these thin contacts usually require some decent divisions....
...“The House vote underscores the fading influence of China’s corporate champions in Washington,” said Craig Singleton, a China expert at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies....
...Three spades and five hearts is eight tricks; since to attack diamonds suggests that South held ♦KQ5, this now suggests short clubs, probably a singleton. Counting complete, West pounced....
...The novels begin with the arrival of naive Cleveland native Mary Ann Singleton in a San Francisco that’s buzzing with pot, poppers and disco....
...BiddingDealer: EastLove All At duplicate pairs, without a singleton or void in North’s hand, 6NT seems the best bid. 6H allows you simply to ruff a spade or a diamond for your 12th trick, whereas in 6NT...
...Round on the Links The link was terms in bridge Ruff Valerie Singleton The Social Contract Rubber Soul Call the Midwife Score a hat-trick Dummy (US and British English) Donald Trump “Jump the shark...
...In the end it could be singletons, not wives, who deal the final blow to the antiquated role of professional spouse....
...I adore Bella Singleton’s prints — check out her Ivy scarf in popping colours (£140, bellasingleton.com). Toteme’s sharp geometric silk square is great, too (£160, net-a-porter.com)....
...As any singleton will know, the great irony is that the cost of dating is guaranteed to fry your finances....
...Adam Singleton, chief investment officer of external alpha at Man Solutions, which invests in other hedge funds, said low volatility and last year’s bull market made it hard for long-short managers to prove...
...Singleton drew a parallel between CATL and Huawei, the smartphone and telecom equipment maker that has been the target of a US crackdown for years: “Just as Huawei sought control in telecom, CATL is strategically...
...In a wonderful pairing, the jaunty boats hang here from the ceiling above John Singleton Copley’s monumental, violent painting “Watson and the Shark”....
...There he is, despoiling the fruity singleton Bridget Jones as the devilish Daniel Cleaver, or perambulating London as the disaffected bachelor at the centre of About a Boy....
...BiddingDealer: NorthE/W Game The singleton A♦ may have put some off from raising no-trumps but, once bid, South is maximum, and must try for game....
...There is a smooth duet for Tyrone Singleton and Céline Gittens and another between Riku Ito and the guitarist, but it all feels strangely deaf to the music — as if it had been rehearsed to Rameau....
...The principle is a simple one: with no standout lead against an auction that has featured only one suit, lead a doubleton or trebleton trump; singletons and 4-card holdings risk spoiling your side’s defensive...
...As preposterous as the moment seemed — I repeat, a moss-covered piano, in a stadium miles deep in fans — it still felt like the true confession of the eternal singleton....
...Even including private saving, the government predicts that around half of singletons retiring in the 2060s will live on less than £23,000 a year....
...and indicating a singleton or void in clubs....
...(It’s a short step from Jane Wyman’s scared-of-life widows in Magnificent Obsession and All That Heaven Allows to Doris Day’s spinster-singletons in Pillow Talk and Lover Come Back....
...This is a Splinter, showing three-card support or better for spades and a singleton (or, rarely, a void) in the opponents’ suit....
...Against a grand slam, providing you do not hold a singleton or a likely natural trick, the text-book lead is a trump....
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