Word: charleston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...surplus" because unemployment has been at least 50% higher than the national average over four of the past five years. Of the 3,426,000 workers idle in August, Mitchell estimated that 500,000 were in the 70 most distressed areas. Seventeen of the areas, including Detroit, Providence and Charleston, W.Va., were officially labeled as "chronic" for the first time. Reasons: depletion of natural resources, the shift from hard coal to natural gas and oil for heating, the transfer of industries to other regions, and growing automation...
...contrast, the Riviera female is in the throes of full, Amazonian development. Her brightly painted toes flicker through the nimble measures of the Charleston; her wrists grow strong beneath the weight of jangling bracelets; her long thighs are shaped to glued-on toreador slacks. She carries blithely a large basket laden with spare sets of false eyelashes, spare bandannas, waterproof mascara, lipstick brushes, eyelid pencils, bobby pins, suntan oils, combs, tweezers, compacts, cigarettes, stray hairs left by the cat. Atop her head is a brimmed straw-hat pulled over a voile scarf tied babushka-style, and she turns...
Think back to when you were a teen-ager-maybe in the days of Rudy Vallee or Johnny Mercer or the Charleston of the Roaring '20s. Well, if you weren't what we call a square, you would have had your "teenage fun" with these artists. It was your generation (with all respect) that broke away from the slow ballroom dance to the faster jitterbug, big apple, Charleston...
Still hardest hit were the year's first epidemic areas. Kansas City, Mo. and Des Moines (TIME, July 13). Near epidemic rates were noted in Little Rock, Ark., Wichita, Kans., Lincoln, Neb., Montgomery, Ala. and Oklahoma City. Clusters of cases occurred in New Haven, Conn., Yonkers, N.Y., Charleston, W. Va. and Nashville, Tenn. True to the early-season pattern, outbreaks were mainly in slum areas. Though many victims had had one or two shots of vaccine, few had had the three-dose course, fewer still the fourth (booster) shot now recommended...
...other. There are still gold-hatted, high-bouncing young men who know their way to the washroom in the Union Club. In his resplendently gold-jacketed first novel, Yaleman Goodman, 23, lists a few undergraduate acolytes who keep the torch flaming: "Lawlor Reck, who had won the Charleston contest at the Everglades Club in Florida for six years running . . . one of the Du Pont boys . . . Lou Bond, who was from San Francisco and had no toes...