Word: ducktail
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...surprised four masked burglars trying to break into a store. There was a burst of gunfire, and the four leaped into a taxi and fled, leaving the policeman dying from seven bullet wounds. Eyewitnesses provided one useful clue: the gunmen wore the narrow trousers, oversized jackets and ducktail haircuts of stilyagi, the Russian version of zoot-suiters...
...teen-age gangs who swagger about New York's West Side-in the standard uniform of leather jacket, ducktail hairdo and handy switchblade-like to boast that they are the Egyptian Dragons or the Assassins and that they can lick anybody on the street. But they can thank their geography that they have never had a rumble with a gang from the Far East...
...Ducktail. Worldly-wise FBI men were skeptical about the eight-year-old's story: the memory seemed too perfect, the details too complete. How could they be sure he was telling the truth? If they wanted to check his story, Lee Crary replied, all they had to do was pick up the young, blond (ducktail haircut) fellow driving a Chevrolet. With no hesitation Lee rattled off the license number...
...gather outside the schools where Negro children had been registered-and it was clear that Nashville was in for serious trouble. There were scrawny, pinch-faced men in T shirts and jeans, vacant-faced women in curlers and loose-hanging blouses, teen-age boys in tight pants and greased ducktail hairdos. They flaunted Confederate flags and placards, e.g., WHAT GOD HAS PUT ASUNDER LET NOT MAN PUT TOGETHER...
...need big names." You don't need a big bankroll, either; Werewolf cost less than $150,000 to produce, by last week had taken in a monstrous $1,700,000. Another Cohen production, being rushed onto film before other mon-stermakers start blood-and-ducktail thrillers: I Was a Teenage Frankenstein...