Word: bumpings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...watched as African graduate students did a Congo mambo bump-and-grind to a jungle drum and peddled cups of thick syrup to the spectators...
...general Democratic strategy had been coldly planned and was coldly executed by Senate Leader Lyndon Johnson and "Mister Sam" Rayburn. Its essentials: 1) let the Eisenhower Administration move first on tax cuts; the longer Ike waits, figure Democrats, the more laggard his party will appear; then 2) bump all Republican bets with a whopping Democratic tax slash aimed mostly at relief for middle-and lower-income workers, i.e., most U.S. voters. Meanwhile, the Democratic Express could roar down the tracks with a highballing series of antirecession spending bills-and Republicans could grab onto the caboose as best they could. Items...
Meanwhile, Kansas City cops continued to patrol the schoolyards, cracked down on non-pupil troublemakers. "Some day someone will bump the wrong person," said one sergeant, "and when it happens, I'm afraid we'll have a lot worse situation here than they had at Little Rock...
...like those of children racing in and out of games. The dancers tie themselves up in little knots and delight in getting out of them gracefully. As the music mocks itself-in a trumpet jeer or a pizzicato poke-the dancers mock the music with a hop, skip or bump. Most dramatic bits: Canadian-born Melissa Hayden's stunning solo variation and a languorous, sensual pas de deux exquisitely danced by Virginia-born Diana Adams and Arthur Mitchell, a talented Negro member of the company. The whole work takes less than 25 minutes, but it unmistakably shows Composer Stravinsky...
...month or so. Far from feeling queasy in matters of life and death, Hamlet shows repeatedly that he is coldly vindictive and diabolically foresighted. He not only sends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to England with a sealed letter containing their own death warrants, but urges England's king to bump them off without warning-so that they cannot be shriven by a priest and will surely go to hell...