Word: congas
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Asked to jot down a few characteristics the term "meatball" brings to mind, some of the Seniors replied: "A red-headed fatso in a green double-breasted suit leading a conga line at Eliot House . . . guy who walks a round Symphony Hall at intermission with a simpish grin . . . the people who made up this questionnaire...
...first time since the Cuban conga (1938), it looks as though the U.S. is taking up a new ballroom dance...
...Dance. Neither in steps nor in body motions does the Brazilian samba bear any relation to the Cuban rumba or the fast-fading conga. Whereas the distinctive feature of the rumba is undulating hip movements, of the conga a one-two-three-kick rhythm, basis of the samba is a springy, knee-action rise & fall-a motion heretofore found mainly on ski slopes. The samba's one ironclad rule: a knee-bend on every beat. A ballroomful of bobbing samba dancers suggests a gay polka, but the bobs in the samba are downs & ups, not ups & downs. The weight...
...TIME, Jan. 12, I notice your comments on Georgia's Governor Talmadge, in which you say he "threw himself into a conga on a slick dance floor, broke two ribs, returned to duty taped stiff as a mummy...
Eugene Talmadge, flogging-apologist Governor of Georgia, threw himself into a conga on a slick dance floor, broke two ribs, returned to duty taped stiff as a mummy...