Word: conga
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When a parade of singing university students swung by in the rhythmic, conga-like step of the peasant yangko dance, a grey-gowned merchant said: "It is good it came so peacefully, but now we must see, we must wait...
Heartened, the boys grabbed trays from waiters, flung steaks, bullied the customers into sitting on the floor, singing campfire songs and joining a conga line...
...protest! I protest against the expressions used with regard to our Crown Princess Juliana: "Plump Princess Juliana . . . [danced] the conga. . . . She slipped, and stayed down, while [the Duke of Gloucester] tried...
...seems highly improbable that: 1) our Crown Princess would dance the conga, and 2) that this vulgar dance would be allowed at Buckingham Palace...
...Royal Pratfall. As the kings (5) and queens (6), ruling and retired, began to arrive, the royal family's eight-year austerity unbent. At a dance at Buckingham Palace, plump Princess Juliana of The Netherlands was dancing a conga with Elizabeth's uncle, the Duke of Gloucester. She slipped, and stayed down, while Harry of Gloucester tried to tug her up amid a moment of embarrassed silence...