Word: clog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...songs and dances that punctuate the destinies of the Boyle family often appear to be crashing the show. Melvyn Douglas kicks up a clog with a couple of cronies in a pub, and suddenly all Dublin floods onstage to sing that he's a Daarlin' Man, and hoist him on its shoulders. The intimate numbers are best. An Agnes de Mille solo, powerfully danced by Juno's doomed son (Tommy Rail), makes a poignant moment out of the life-destroying blight of Ireland's "Troubles." Two lovers' laments, One Kind Word and For Love, affectingly...
...unhappy exception in the generally flourishing economies of Western Europe is the coal glut; mountains of coal rise high alongside the smoking industrial chimneys. More than 14 million surplus tons clog Germany's Ruhr, and 20,000 miners have been laid off. Continued production at Belgium's notoriously uneconomic Borinage shafts (TIME, March 2) added to the stocks of 7,000,000 tons of coal already piled up in Belgium, so that, as one coal producer put it, "we literally have no more room anywhere to put the coal we produce which nobody will...
...thickens, thickens, thickens. It centers around a travelling salesman whose wife suspects him on general principles. When the police arrest this simple fellow on bigamy charges, no one investigates the possibility of mistaken identity. Which might have saved a good deal of trouble. Meanwhile, noisy relatives of all parties clog the wheels of justice...
...London Times feared that the upstart invasion might unbalance the ancient fortress of classical learning, and one frosty don complained that another half-thousand bicycles would clog the university town's streets beyond unsnarling. But last week, despite the serious reservations of some scholars, Cambridge University took the first formal step toward the admission of a new residential college, to be devoted chiefly to science. The new college will be named for one of its originators, Sir Winston Churchill...
Neither in San Francisco beatnik saloons nor Manhattan dives could this inspired narrative have been heard last week, but it echoed through Munich jazz cellars. U.S.-style rock 'n' roll, with its clog-shoe tempo and its far-out jargon, is sweeping Germany and leaving the language in Teutonic tatters.* Along with the new lingo, a new generation of singers (or shouters) have appeared, all of them alarmingly young. Where U.S. rock 'n' rollers are well along in years (19-25), Germany's top practitioners are in their early teens, and at least one solid...