Word: jived
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...jive a judge by jamming a June bug" ends a "commercial"-"brought to you by the letter J"-featured in a recent episode of educational television's innovative new children's show. "Sesame Street...
...want to do what the universities have done on a jive level, using the ghetto for a laboratory but without paying a fee." Referring to Harvard and M.I.T., he added. "All they do is move in and take over the housing. They haven't been responsible to the community...
...American Army paratroop unit. Harold, a literate older brother, irreverently sabotages the ultra-patriotic camp newspaper by inventing a comic-strip character known as "the Nippon Pimpernel." Against an otherworldly background of Screenland magazines, Baby Ruth candy bars, and zoot suiters jitterbugging to the music of "the Jive Bombers, the true Mi-kados of swing," camp life is not all camp. The prisoners are soon polarized into two groups. On the one hand are the Super Japanese, paying homage to the Emperor and extolling Yamato da-mashii, the Japanese fighting spirit. On the other are Super Americans, holding war-bond...
...walk down the street in east Los Angeles and seven families out of ten on a block are barely existing." Said Catherine Jermany, a huge black woman who heads an organization known as the Los Angeles County Welfare Rights Organization: "I'm tired of this jive! This whole welfare thing is an administrative cop-out." Lydia Rodrigues scolded the Senators: "Coming here, asking for statistics, it's a farce. You know the answers. If you dare come here again, ask the mothers on Fourth Street...
There, now that's what I think it's all about. Some, in fact many, may differ. Even among my peers there are those who might have phrased it differently, who don't jive to this gibberish. But who are they to tell me what...