Word: hipping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...your May 2 story on jazz & drugs: your etymology of "hip" is strictly...
...Force base at Incirlik, near Adana, Turkey. Its wide wings drooped with delicate languor-like a squatting seagull, too spent to fly. Its pilot seemed equally odd: a dark, aloof young man who wore a regulation flying suit and helmet but no markings, and had a revolver on his hip. Pilot Francis Gary Powers, 30, climbed into the one-man cockpit, gunned the black ship's single engine, and as the plane climbed toward take-off speed, the wide wings stiffened and the awkward outrigger wheels that had served as ground support dropped away...
Married. Emma Castro Ruz, 24, youngest sister of Cuban Dictator Fidel Castro; and Victor Lomeli Delgado, a Mexican engineer; by the Archbishop Coadjutor, Msgr. Evelio Diaz y Cia, in Havana. Dressed in his customary fatigues, and bobbling a pistol on his right hip, Fidel showed up 20 minutes late for the wedding, was applauded and cheered as he entered the cathedral...
Jazz and dope often seem as closely linked as their jargon; e.g., the jazz terms "hip" and "hipster" are derived from opium smoking, during which the addict lies on one hip. Such famed hipsters as Gene Krupa, Thelonius Monk and the late Billie Holliday had their public problems with dope, and the jazz trade has long refused to book some big-name combos into cities where drugs are known to be hard to get. To find out just how far jazz and dope play hand in hand, Manhattan Psychologist Charles Winick interviewed 357 jazz musicians on the habits of some...