Word: goin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more slugs of Scotch, gin and beer ("I don't like the stuff, but it keeps me goin' "), and it was time for the second performance. Fats slipped on his four-carat diamond ring, sank a horseshoe-shaped diamond stickpin in a rich new tie. From the stage, the whine of an electric guitar and the bleat of a sax vibrated through the walls; the rock 'n' roll picadors were wearing down the audience. As his handlers hovered, Fats stuffed himself into a fresh, shimmering suit, then stepped daintily out of the dressing room and trotted...
...hustler, tries to straighten himself out at the Bowery Mission but just can't stand the quiet and runs out for a quick one. That night he gets sapped and rolled in a back street, and the next morning decides "to get off this Bowery-I'm goin' to Chicago. Gonna make my last stand out there. If I don't make it this time, I'll give...
...please don't. It feels so twitchy all up'n down. If you don't cut it out I'm goin' to call...
...climbed into the ring, then went into a friendly clinch and clung as if for the bell. Next he was asked to recall the maxim his religious mother taught him. "Go to church and believe in God?" he guessed desperately. "Live by the golden rule and keep goin'," prompted Edwards firmly. "Keep goin'," repeated Dempsey. He kept goin'. Only once, with obvious inadvertence, did he throw a verbal counterpunch. "Now they say you were a hobo," droned Edwards, "but you were never really a hobo, were you?" Dempsey groped, then murmured gently: "I think...
...bureaucrats might be less evil than a regime speaking in the name of brotherly love. Herzen's shrewd mind took the slogans of Europe's libertarian movement and arrived at the wisdom of the American Negro spiritual-"Everybody talkin' 'bout heaven-ain't goin' there...