Word: dinged
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...read his statement. The tough race had humbled a normally proud man." After Philadelphians defeated a proposal that would have allowed Mayor Frank Rizzo to seek a third term, New York Correspondent Robert Parker visited the headquarters of the victors and watched "snake dances with revelers flashing signs, DING DONG, THE WITCH IS DEAD." At Governor Jerry Brown's re-election party in Los Angeles, Correspondent Joe Kane observed while celebrants, dressed in costumes ranging from knickers to gold lamè, absorbed mariachi music. "To top it all off," says Kane, "an Arab sheik arrived in full native costume...
...years." The A & A is mainly a family business. On this, as on most days, Jon Lunsford's two oldest sons-Doug, 20, already married and the father of two, and Danny, a shy 16-year-old-open at 6:30 a.m. to answer the chorus of ding-dings set off as cars begin rolling over the rubber signal hose stretched across the driveway...
After six baleful, bitter years, a full 16 seasons after Willie Mays & Co. brought them their first West Coast pennant in 1962, the Giants for most of 1978 have been leading the league in a ding-dong race. Giant fans, regarded as an endangered species likely to be spotted only on beaches, at discos and in therapy groups, are flocking to Candlestick Park, breaking all attendance records (1.3 million, nearly doubled since last year). Now they dance in the stadium after victory, howl for Dodger blood and scream their affection for a new-found love, Pitcher Vida Blue. "Bloo! Bloo...
Smart little computers provide mental aerobics Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding!" The sound of a fire bell, imitated flawlessly and gleefully by a high-pitched human voice, informs the neighborhood that Moppet has conquered Machine. They are well matched: Lizie is small, going on eleven, with brightly lit hazel eyes. The vanquished mechanism is a small desktop computer called Comp IV, new this year at under $40, with flashing red lights...
Getting it on, of course, means love and sex, passions that old time rock 'n' roll had plenty to say about. But today's punk rockers have no time for euphemisms like Chuck Berry's "ding-a-ling." Four-letter words are not spared. And when Thundertrain bawls, "I'm hot, ho, hot, hot for teacher," there is no missing the point. The 1970s have been dominated by graduates of the 1960s rock era -Paul Simon and Paul McCartney moving out on their own, groups like the Rolling Stones, the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Starship...