Word: charlestoning
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...million from other shipbuilding and reserve funds to speed seven nuclear subs now under construction, advanced operational dates by ten weeks. The Navy's eventual fleet of 18 nuclear Polaris subs (by 1964) will berth and load missiles at a new $26.5 million base seven miles above the Charleston, S.C. harbor on the Cooper River. At dedication ceremonies last week, Rear Admiral William F. ("Red") Raborn, chief of the Polaris project, looked confidently beyond the Polaris' 1,200-mile range of 1960, predicted a 1,500-mile range by 1962 and an eventual 2,500-mile nuclear reach...
There is no doubt at all that aristocratic Charleston, S.C. is among the fairest of U.S. cities, and it is certain that it is the proudest by far. How many Americans know (as Charlestonians do) that the Union (ugly word) consists of 50 highly questionable states and one highly sovereign city? And who else can go to bed at night with the comforting assurance that the Atlantic Ocean is formed by the confluence of the Ashley and Cooper rivers-right over yonder in Charleston Harbor? Above all, Charleston has its own language, a tongue completely beyond the comprehension of most...
Last week Charleston braced for the annual season of tourists (torsts), torrents of garden clubbers, northbound Florida winterers, southbound daughters of various revolutions, and an occasional English poet. The city and its outlying plantations never looked lovelier: after an unusually cold and wet winter, the azaleas and camellias preened in the soft spring sun; the alleys of live oaks, festooned in Spanish moss, led to another world. And as the torsts came-by tren and plen and cyah (there were even a few treelas in the new pyaks outside the city limits) -they could count on a reassuring new introduction...
Ashley Cooper's Dictionary goes a long way toward clearing up international misunderstandings, but several enlarged new editions will be required before the situation is fully in hand-as in a recent case when a Charleston girl flattened a Manhattan matron with the information that she and Wretched, after a lett dett, were goin' on the tren to Flettruck on Leebadee...
...simple two-step, the dance lends itself to any music with a steady ? beat -and allows for innumerable variations: after the basic Madison step is completed, the caller can ask for the Big M (see cut), for a snatch of the Charleston, for some cha cha cha, or for the step known as "the Jackie Gleason" (a broad parody of Gleason's away-we-go shuffle). When a pattern is finished, he may call: "Erase it," i.e., repeat the pattern in reverse. The variations often have a sports flavor, as in "the Wilt Chamberlain Hook," in which the dancer...