Word: kolo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beneath Sukarno's windows. With food and music furnished by Sukarno, champagne and slivovitz brought in off Tito's ocean-going yacht Caleb (Seagull), the two Presidents and their wives rang in the New Year in memorable fashion. Dancers trampled the palace lawn with polkas and Partisan Kolo. At midnight Tito and Sukarno embraced and kissed. At dawn the revelers were dancing in their shirtsleeves. A rainstorm broke; they moved inside. Not until 7 a.m. did the party break...
...election day, Slovene inhabitants of the hill town of Buie performed the kolo, a whirling Serbian national dance. When Italian reporters appeared in the town square the people stopped dancing, beat up the Italians and resumed the kolo. When British journalists appeared, the townsfolk mauled them, too, and danced some more...