Word: goin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ample dark figure in the white gown with the gold-cross necklace lifted her majestic contralto through My Home Over There ("There's gonna be peace one day ), The Holy Bible, Ain't Goin' Study War No More, bending her notes in the manner of the great blues singer Bessie Smith. Occasionally, she stepped away from the microphone to let her big voice boom through the hall without the aid of electronics. When she got to Joshua Fit ae Battle of Jericho, the walls of the auditorium almost came down. Mahalia escaped only by improvising a song...
...sidekick, "Doc" Holliday-Allie sewed, cooked, gossiped and quarreled. Time and again, Allie and Mattie got tired of being cooped up while the men were on the town. Once they decided to explore the place themselves, and were promptly picked up. As Allie remembered it: "I ain't goin' to say who it was even now. We crossed our hearts never to tell and we never did, even after what happened. I wasn't sure what happened or just when, but our friend was given' us a sip of all different kinds of wines, fancy good...
...Virginia border. His father, Oliver Powers, 55, who owns a shoe-repair shop in Norton, Va., reveled in telling callers last week that Francis got his first plane ride at the age of 14, came back to announce: "I left my heart up there, Pap, and I'm goin' back...
...goes a long way toward clearing up international misunderstandings, but several enlarged new editions will be required before the situation is fully in hand-as in a recent case when a Charleston girl flattened a Manhattan matron with the information that she and Wretched, after a lett dett, were goin' on the tren to Flettruck on Leebadee...