Word: bending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Probably so named because the Jesuit Order once owned land at a nearby bend in the Mississippi River...
When the priest arrived at Jesuits Bend,* about 15 miles south of New Orleans, he found a delegation of parishioners waiting for him at the mission chapel. "They were very polite," the Rev. Gerald Lewis, 31, said later. "They informed me that a Negro could not say Mass for a white congregation...
...Archbishop Joseph Francis Rummel, a famed enemy of segregation (three years ago he banned Jim Crow benches in New Orleans' Catholic churches), met the issue head-on but gently. Instead of cutting off the congregation from all spiritual ministrations, he merely suspended services at the mission in Jesuits Bend and reduced services at two others at nearby Belle Chasse and Myrtle Grove. In a letter addressed to the congregations, the archbishop said that the incident violated "the obligations of reverence and devotion which Catholics owe to every priest...
Whatever the sound was, it was most consciously contrived. From Bing, of course, Frank borrowed the intense care for the lyrics, and a few of those bathtub sonorities the microphone takes so well. From Tommy Dorsey's trombone he learned to bend and smear his notes a little, and to slush-pump his rhythms in the long dull level places. From Billie Holliday he caught the trick of scooping his attacks, braking the orchestra, and of working the "hot acciaccatura"-the "N'awlins" grace note that most white singers flub...
...straighten up when you bend...