Word: hepped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Soon after the missilemen moved in, Principal Brown found himself with the problem of teaching youngsters who were scientifically more hep than the school's science program. In 1957 Brown raided the missile base for electronic equipment, and Biology Teacher Gerald Einem set up a volunteer advanced research class. Given their heads, Melbourne's students brewed up a brain storm. One built an artificial kidney, another a digital computer. They tried everything from inducing cancer in mice to making toads lay eggs out of season. It got so that local repairmen refused to fix anything at the school...
...Hep...
...unhip (un-hep) this TIME...
...replaced the enunciation "hep," which had all the current meanings. Why? Because some hepster preferred the key of i to that of e, just as English vowel changes produced...
Almost everywhere the noise ends at midnight, when the tourists turn in to rest for tomorrow's sun. Only the hep types hold out-and they end up at The Clouds, listening to Ann. They get what they want in the clear, confident phrasing, in the old Tin Pan Alley favorites (Ten Cents a Dance, What's New, It All Depends on You) remembered with new enthusiasm...