Word: jived
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dance craze was sweeping the hemisphere. Part rumba and part jive, with a strong dash of itching powder, the mambo had left unstormed only the tango strongholds of Argentina and the samba-land of Brazil. In all the other Americas, dancers quivered and kicked-sedately in swank nightclubs and wildly in smoky dives-to the mambo beat. This week its originator, Dámaso Pérez Prado, 29, was scheduled to arrive in New York to carry the assault...
...started along dusty "Cavalry Boulevard" toward the Naktong river front. Says Popko: "After the first couple of days we got to be pretty good. We learned the tricks. We knew what to watch for and when to fire and how to take care of yourself. If you can Jive through the first couple of days, you got a chance...
Skirling loudly at the dockside, the Scottish pipers momentarily silenced a U.S. Army Negro band of welcome, but when the British soldiers shouted down from 'the docks, "Swing it, swing it," the U.S. band burst into a jive version of the St. Louis Blues. The Britons cheered. Many of them were World War II veterans; all had just completed 16 months' training in Hong Kong over hilly country almost identical with that of Korea. Said Sergeant George Morrison, sniffing the paddies: "It even smells the same." Attached to an American unit, the Tommies pronounced American rations "very good...
...evening of the concert I was warming up my chops getting ready to lay all that good fine jive like Muskrat Ramble to Lazy River and on down the line -which 'killed em..... I noticed that everything I'd run down on my trumpet -this kid would sing it and I mean he really would sing it..... So when I finished the tune I wheeled around to Ray and said -'Gate' during my concerts I want you to come out and sing Stormy Weather..... 'Oh Gawd' -that kid almost turned 'my colour...