Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...times the lyrics tumbled out like rolling dice; at times they floated with a coolly languid back beat. Sometimes the trio sang three different lyric lines simultaneously...
Blues . . . back . . . stage...
...bold, broad beat brought back...
...trumpeter is safer sitting than standing, and safest of all when he is lying flat on his back...
...soon as he arrived last fall, Kristofferson began behaving exactly as he had done back at Pomona College, where he had earned a Phi Beta Kappa key, won conference recognition as a football end, commanded his R.O.T.C. battalion, won four out of 20 prizes in the Atlantic's collegiate short-story writing contest, played a top-chop game of Rugby, and kayoed an opponent in a Golden Gloves elimination fight before getting iced himself. At Oxford, Kris immersed himself in the dark waters of Anglo-Saxon, spent a few ergs of his seemingly inexhaustible reserve of energy playing Rugger...