Word: hops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...right mind would climb into an airplane for the first time and try to solo. Hardly anyone over the age of 16 would expect to hop in a car and go off without knowing how to drive. But put a man in a power boat and he becomes the instant mariner. He requires neither operator's license nor the barest acquaintance with navigation or mechanics. All he has to do is punch the starter button and take off, trusting to God and the U.S. Coast Guard...
Sometimes he will go unannounced to the town of one of his clients and just check into a motel, dial-hop around the radio, and then decide how to beat the competition. For example, the program director of Memphis' WHBQ says that his Drake-ordered strategy is to go for "the schoolteacher who lets her hair down, forgets the Mantovani, and swings a little...
From there it was only a short hop to university "complicity" in the war: the university was contributing to the war effort by investing in armaments and by doing war research for the government...
...mobility. As sexual barriers tumble, the tenacious parasites are infesting more and more middle-class youngsters. One reason, says Boston Dermatologist A. Bernard Ackerman in the New England Journal of Medicine, is that the bugs are making the scene at hippie love-ins. And it is only a short hop from the crash pad to the college crowd...
...Life, the record glances backward to the simple, hard-driving style they left behind in Liverpool. There are no electronic rumbles, no shifting keys or tempos-just a bluesy melodic line plunging exuberantly over an instrumental backing that is straight out of an old-fashioned record-hop...