Word: mambos
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...perilous 200 ft., hurtled 1,346 yds. down the ice-banked Cresta Run, one of the world's first artificial toboggan slides (built 1884) at better than a mile a minute. Evenings, the women doffed ski suits for Dior and Balenciaga gowns, and bobsledders slid into tails to mambo through the night. Others simply spent their time quietly breathing-for St. Moritz' crystal-clear air has 18% less oxygen than sea-level air, forces visitors to breathe deeper and faster, bringing color to pallid cheeks...
Petticoats of Portugal (Pérez Prado; RCA Victor). A rising tune whose simpering lyrics belong in tinseled nightclub surroundings, in its most palatable version. Cuban Bandleader Prado presents it in slow mambo rhythm, and mercifully omits all vocals except for one Pradian grunt...
...dispute began in May, 1955, when Halton delivered four sermons attacking Walter T. Stace, professor of Philosophy, for "professional incompetence." Labeling Stace's Metaphysics "a metaphysical mambo," Halton later charged the professor with "poisoning the minds of students with incompetence for 38 years." He contended that Stace had made 22 errors of fact in his treatment of St. Thomas Aquinas, which, he said, implied that Stace had not read the Summa Theologica...
...they cannot quite bring themselves to take jobs. Supported by indulgent families, they sleep till noon, spend the rest of the day at the poolroom or on the beach, talking about girls they seldom get or wishing they were somewhere far away. Sometimes, there is nothing to do but mambo along the sidewalk, or just grow sideburns. At night they get drunk on money cadged from their working sisters, and tiptoe delicately to bed in the wee hours. They are terrified of their fathers, but bathetically sentimental about their doting mothers...
...Aviv, 20 minutes away to the west. At Kalkilya shells rained both on the fort and the town, killing a nursing infant, his brother, an old woman. By 4:20 the Israelis finally pulled out. This time when they crossed the border they did not cheer or sing their mambo tunes...