Word: folke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frightened folk below forgot all about the professor until he jounced four miles downslope to tell Allied officials that the lava flow had slackened, evacuation could be halted. Then, anxious to get back to his instrument readings, he hurried upslope again, this time provided with a car. Behind him he left word that Vesuvius had not put on a better show since 1872, when showers of stone killed 20. (By week's end the present eruption had caused 26 deaths.) But the little geophysicist was also sure that the show was "effusive" and not "explosive"; he had been much...
From days immemorial the tawny Gil-bertese have chanted their folk sagas. Last week New York Timesman Robert Trumbull recorded one that "chanters yet unborn will sing"-the story of the U.S. 165th Infantry and the bathing girls of Makin Atoll...
Three years ago, he had to expand his Sav-Way Industries. As he started to build a new plant, WPB banned steel construction. Saffady got around this. He bought quantities of secondhand pipe, worked out a method of welding it into girders, built his own plant while less ingenious folk sat and grumbled. When he found it impossible to buy vitally needed internal grinders, he designed and built his own. They worked out so well that, at $5,900 each, he has already sold...
Oklahoma! Mint-fresh, clover-sweet folk musical with charming, un-Broadwayish dancing and gay Richard Rodgers tunes (TIME, April...
...gente do morro (hill folk), who inhabit the Negro slums on Rio's numerous hills and make virtually a year's living in Rio's four carnival days, clambered and skidded down from their hilltops singing a brand-new crop of carnival songs and dances. Lacking jalopies to parade in, they hung three-deep to the sides of streetcars, beating out wild rhythms on their tambourines and shouting the new tunes that would soon pulsate in all the samba palaces of Brazil. Usually the streetcar motormen got the idea and joined in, clanging out the rhythm with...