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Word: backed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Jabberwocky with a Beat | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

Blues . . . back . . . stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Jabberwocky with a Beat | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

...bold, broad beat brought back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Jabberwocky with a Beat | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

...trumpeter is safer sitting than standing, and safest of all when he is lying flat on his back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Inflated Trumpeter | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Old Oxonian Blues | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

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