Word: jitterbugging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jitterbug: young gang fighter...
...years ago, the interned Japanese-most of them U.S.-born or relatively assimilated-tried to turn Tule Lake into an American small town. Boy Scout troops and English classes sprang up, as well as softball and basketball leagues. Christian and Buddhist churches were formed and young people danced the jitterbug and the foxtrot under the eyes of watchful parents...
...class, "Gentleman" James Chiarkas of Lowell House seemed a sure win over Winthrop's Mike "Marathon" Bernick in the first round. By the third round, Chiarkas' jitterbug had slowed to a waltz, but he mustered a surprise left hook that just barely gave him the decision...
...revival) and for The Roaring Twenties (which still comes around now and again), "a saga of liquor and love that rolls through that fabulous decade into the gloom of the thirties." And the review highly recommends Bachelor Mother, in which Ginger Rogers, David Niven, and a jitterbug contest "all add up to delightful fare...
...much on its own merits as on the strength of its public's profound desire to nestle in the world it dreams up. No matter that it is mostly a travesty of the period, of the big-band sound, of the '40s fads and the jitterbug and, above all, the wartime patriotism that seems now so attractive and so unrecoverable...