Word: buffalo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Probably few of the 1,000,000 serious square-dance buffs you refer to have ever danced to such tunes as Skip to My Lou, Turkey in the Straw, Buffalo Gals or Nellie Gray. Singing square-dance calls are now based on current pop tunes, and even include the twist...
...Buffalo Grove...
...acre game preserve in Choctaw County, to which he brought planeloads of folks from Washington and all points south. He could put them in 69 beds in his big house, and he loved to send them out hunting deer, wild turkey, quail, dove, wild boar and even buffalo...
...beats to the minute, in three "sets" per dance, followed by a short intermission for breath-catching and flirting. The tune can be anything with an air and a beat, better if it is something everybody knows, like Skip to My Lou Gal or Turkey in the Straw, Buffalo Gals or Darling Nellie Gray. The real trick is knowing what the caller means and picking it up fast when he sounds off with: "Bend the line and Dixie chain . . . Strip the gears and do-se-do." Or even the famed (in New England) Doodar- call to the tune...
Last week the butter was being spread a little thinner. Since March, steel production has slipped from 82% of capacity to 55%, and dozens of steel furnaces have been banked from Pittsburgh to Buffalo. This week U.S. steelmakers will pour barely 1,600,000 tons-just about what Russia will produce...