Word: conga
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...often likes things. Openness to wild ideas goes back to the 1960s, when the lab established an office to dream up plans for future missions, and an engineer crunching numbers one day happened to notice that in 1977, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune would fall into a rare planetary conga line that they would not form again for 176 years. This insight set the stage for the spectacular four-planet Voyager flights of the 1970s and '80s. Today the business of blue-skying ideas has become more institutionalized with a 20-person group called the Advanced Projects Design Team...
...corner of the grassy Great Court, which served as a gathering place for the lunchtime throngs, Saudi Arabian women lectured on a feminist interpretation of the Koran. In another, a black American conga drummer from Harlem spontaneously threw up her arms and shouted to the assembly, "You have changed my life!" In yet another, a raven-haired Bolivian in a felt bowler talked excitedly to a veiled woman from the Western Sahara. Each day at noon, Betty Friedan conducted an informal seminar in the cool shade of a fig tree. And nearby, a dozen black-robed Iranian women assembled...
...coming man. "You've got to have a go. Get stuck into it." Conga line of suckholes. "If the other side is throwing punches, it's my job to whack them back as hard as I can." "I'm a hater." Arse licker. "It's a great Australian phrase ? and it's an accurate description of the Prime Minister's behavior in Washington." Australia First. "Bush himself is the most incompetent and dangerous President in living memory." Deformed character...
Though Koenig and friends did not expect regular performances, other students responded positively. Soon Hough was joined by Bardin on the conga drums, and the duo has continued to play Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights ever since...
...University Band—led by Jack P. McCambridge ’06 and Bede A. Moore ’06, who is also a Crimson editor—marched from the Yard to play atop the T station for a pulsating crowd that at one point formed a conga line. Students undressed and streaked through the Yard as their classmates chanted “Yankees suck,” threw water balloons and dressed the John Harvard statue in Red Sox paraphernalia...