Word: congas
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...plant and animal procreation, but to bring fertile thoughts to a chief in making an important decision: but knowledge still leaves an audience a good distance from feeling. One way Miss Primus drew her audience closer was to have them sing the antiphonal chant for her last piece, the conga; and others of her dances, like the jivey "high-life," include the audience by sheer force of exuberance...
...conch shell wailed, the conga drums thump-thumped, the bamboo sticks clattered. The four men on stage were constantly on the move-clacking wooden blocks, scratching a corrugated gourd, flailing away at Chinese gongs, weaving rhythms that were insistent, sinuous and hypnotic. Occasionally, when the spirit moved them, they barked like seals or whooped like cranes. The happy audience at Chicago's Edgewater Beach Hotel rattled the rafters whooping back...
...Teamsters convention in Miami Beach last week began like a summer shivaree. Delegates pinned on badges, pumped hands, paraded conga-fashion through the Deauville Hotel lobby behind a red-coated jazz band. They packed hotel dining rooms in the early evening and took their trade to Collins Avenue strip joints as the night sluiced tin. They crowded into the Miami Beach exhibition hall for a $25,000 one-night Teamster spectacular, featuring George Gobel, Mimi Benzell and ten chorus girls. They had a wonderful time. And they were...
...Slight, grey-blonde Josephine Poszywak Hoffa, 43, served coffee, led a conga line, captivated Teamster wives. "She's a doll,".said one, "with no airs." Mrs. Hoffa also revealed her formula for 24 years of happy marriage: "Don't nag him. If he's good to you, has a good job, and is doing what he wants to do, just be grateful...
Their dash made them look more like drunks in a conga line. In the thin air, no one could lurch more than 15 steps without rest. The final 400 ft. were up a near-vertical snow wall; somehow they made it, and there was the slender bamboo pole that had been planted on the summit in 1947 by Bradford Washburn, a mountain-climbing geographer. Three men burst into tears. "Do you realize," gasped Buckingham, "do you realize what we've done? Four hackers-we've made a great ascent, maybe the greatest outside of South America...