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Word: congas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: The Communists Have Come | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Talk of Show Business | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 5, 1948 | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

...seems highly improbable that: 1) our Crown Princess would dance the conga, and 2) that this vulgar dance would be allowed at Buckingham Palace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 5, 1948 | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Dearly Beloved | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

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