Word: kolo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that this did not in any way imply friendship for "all those warmongers in capitalist countries . . ." One of his listeners was reminded that in the very hall in which Tito stood (a former country club for royal guardsmen), gay officers and their girls used to do the kolo, a Yugoslav folk dance in which the dancer first takes two steps to the left and one to the right, then two steps to the right and one to the left. Tito himself was twisting his way through a difficult kolo between Eastern and Western enemies. "Well, what now?" he concluded after...
...Tipperary-a controversial song in the Balkans these days-and Oj Srbjo, a Serbian battle song, sounded and resounded until dawn. The crowds danced the wild Serbian kolo until they were exhausted. Even the mothers and fathers of young men who had just gone off to military stations joined in the shouting...