Word: folksing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The revolt began shortly after midnight when mutineers stormed the Ankara radio station and broadcast a declaration that the "Revolutionary Headquarters of the Armed Forces" was taking over the country. Roused from their sleep, loyal army troops raced to the scene, regaining control of the microphones briefly, only to lose...
Kennan thereafter suffered a deep sense of betrayal-not on Tito's part, but on that of the folks back home. Said he privately: "I feel silenced. We are paralyzed here. I would have fought like a tiger, and many Yugoslavs would have supported us. But we have silenced...
Edwin P. Christy has been long forgotten by all but a few devotees of the early minstrels. Not so the name of one of his proteges, Stephen Collins Foster, some of whose best-loved ballads were popularized by Christy. If the New Christy Minstrels can develop a smash hit like...
Standing beneath a big yellow banner proclaiming FARMERS UNION-ABUNDANCE, PEACE, FREEDOM, Freeman gave his audience some pats on the back: "Most city folks are not aware of the benefits they derive from your success." He gave himself some too: "I am pleased that we have made real progress in...
The Clays of Louisville are an old Kentucky family. Not rich, maybe, like the folks who play pool in the Pendennis Club and chew mint leaves on the veranda at Churchill Downs. But the Clays have been there for six generations-ever since their ancestors worked as slaves on the...