Word: legging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vane Effect. In Wilmington, N.C., charged with drunkenness the day after he had been convicted of drunkenness and ordered to leave town, John Cartwright, 50, explained: "Every time I raised my good leg off the ground, the wind would come and spin me around; I had to take a drink to steady myself...
...Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel one afternoon this week, nearly 1,000 managers and teachers from all over the far-flung Arthur Murray dancing-studio empire gathered to learn a new dance that, vaguely resembles a rumba done in quick time by partners with one game leg apiece. The dance was the merengue, long popular in the Dominican Republic and now a lively candidate for popularity on U.S. dance floors. The merengue (pronounced meh-rew-geh) has already caught on at Manhattan's mambo-mad Palladium, and has begun to spread to less hectic New York dance spots...
...Haitian ears the Dominicans' merengue seems oversaxed. Both nations claim to have invented the ancestral meringue-merengue, but the true origins are obscure. One oft-told Dominican tale is that the merengue got started when a party of Dominican villagers welcoming home a war hero with a maimed leg sympathetically copied his gimpy style of dancing. The story is supposed to account for the merengue's hip-swinging, bent-knee style...
...like a less dignified version of the Spanish paso doble (bullfighters' march). Basic merengue figures are a graceful two-beat side walk and four-or eight-beat spot turns (see diagram). "It's easy," says Manhattan Dancing Teacher Josephine Butler. "You do a fox trot with one leg and a rumba with the other...
...Western Pacific, he tangles with "Bungo Pete," the cunning old Japanese ex-submariner whose beaten-up destroyer guards the southern approaches to Japan's Inland Sea. Though Commander Richardson's Walrus blows a whole Japanese convoy apart, a shell from Bungo Pete cracks Richardson's leg. After sweating out the hospital and a stretch of shore duty in Hawaii, he learns that Bungo Pete has sunk the Walrus, skippered by his former executive officer. With a fury worthy of Melville's Captain Ahab, Richardson takes another submarine straight to Bungo Pete's lair. One stormy...