Word: goin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dancing in the Houses. Two Houses are having very different kinds of dances this weekend; both promise to be good. Sahara, probably one of the few local rock bands adventurous--and good--enough to try songs as complex as Marvin Gaye's "What's Goin' On?" will play Friday, May 17 at the Hotel Continental, 8:30 p.m., for $.99 which includes free drinks. Fiddling Eli Frank and the Rock Bottom String Band will call a square dance Saturday, May 18 at Dunster House...
...When Miz Draper told me she saw a guy on a motorcycle goin down Route 415 at 95 I knew it was you. Some day you're gonna ride that thing right off the road...
...across a flat stretch of swampy forest where at the end of the day a rich odor of bacon cooking came drifting from some nearby shack or trailer. "They've got it fixed up real pretty," said the man we asked for directions, "with them long white fences goin up the hill and the house is hid in the trees...
...know you have, how the Lord told Ezekiel to speak and then Ezekiel he spoke and the bones took on sinew and the bones took on flesh. Or the tale of Balaam's ass. Or about the devil going to and fro in the earth: Yessir the devil is goin to and fro making his work. Making the work of hell...
...Clipped consonants and brassy vowels being the mark of the intelligentsia, my polysyllabic pronunciation of single vowels had to change. In order to be accepted as an intellectual equal, Southern women must learn to enunciate as quickly and sharply as their Northern counterparts. Southernisms such as "Are ya'll goin' to the show?" must become "Are you guys going to the movies?" In social situations, Southern women with thick or even moderate accents are victims of good-natured bantering, but the assumptions underlying the bantering aren't so kind. As a Confederate compatriot of mine remarked during our freshmen week...