Word: basic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...style was forged around tenements, speakeasies and rent parties?a harsher, more nervous brand of blues that reflected the stress and tempo of urban living. This style mingled with the blaring jazz and blues that swept out of the Southwest during the swing era (Andy Kirk, Count Basic), and so the stage was set for the emergence, after World War II, of rhythm & blues...
...Dogs. By 1965, although few U.S. fans had heard of him, Trevino was already making an impression on his peers. He won the Texas State Open and finished second in the Mexican Open, meanwhile working as a teaching pro at El Paso's Horizon Hills Country Club. His basic salary was indeed only $30 a week, but with his coaching fees, he says, "I was making more money than the guy who owned the club." He picked up another $600 in the 1966 U.S. Open at the Olympic Club in San Francisco, playing with an unmatched bag of clubs...
...general idea is to take a boat out into the deep, open her up to 50-60 knots, and pray. It helps to have a basic knowledge of navigation, a strong stomach, and a desire to get the ordeal over with as quickly as possible. Lewis, 34, who last week won the Bahamas 500 for the second year in a row, was once asked what made him go so fast. Said he simply: "Fear...
...that the Moscow rabbi was in the U.S. trying to "establish contact" with U.S. Jewry suggests that some of the charges of anti-Semitism were beginning to bother the Russians. As he held court in his suite in Manhattan's medium-posh Essex House, the rabbi reiterated two basic arguments, both undeniable-as far as they went. Anti-Semitism exists outside Russia, too, he said, and Russian Jews today are better off than in czarist times...
...that is exactly what Lowry has written, with desperate passion, despite the fact that he considered it "rather a second-rate ambition to be an optimist." Lowry could no more round off his hope than his book. But at a time when the fashion for the novel is basic black-when despair has gone slick-Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend Is Laid once again gives the struggle between good and evil the dignity of an even match, and the excitement of a metaphysical cliffhanger...