Word: mule
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FOLK BANJO STYLES (Elektra). The banjo, the only instrument native to the U.S., is becoming as much a part of the summer landscape as the mosquito. Here is a recital (Flop-Eared Mule, Nine Hundred Miles, Goodbye Old Booze) in various styles by four experts. On the sleeve, there is a written exposition for beginning listeners of plain and fancy picking: frailing, up-picking, two-finger, three-finger, and the virtuoso Scruggs style...
...died suddenly of a heart attack. Greece was battered and bleeding from the war. In the north, Communist guerrillas were fighting and winning a civil war against their countrymen. Quietly and efficiently, Paul and Frederika set out to rally their people against the Communists. In Jeeps and on mule-back, the royal couple visited fighting fronts, slept on dirt floors and ate with peasants...
...special studio down the hall from his hotel suite. The whole slightly astonishing deal was, of course, swung with the help of ABC Vice President James Hagerty, Ike's former press secretary. An effort to line up Harry Truman for the Democratic Convention brought out the Missouri mule. The role of political commentator, said H.S.T., "is an unsuitable one for a former President...
...lead with 2 laps to go in the 1000 yard run and bung on long enough to finish a very creditable third behind Canadians Bill Crohers and Fargas Laps. John Ogden's finishing sprint earned him into second place, close behind Brown's Dave Farley, in the intercollegate mule...
...understandable, but Europeans in general, Washington feels, expect the U.S. to meet its NATO commitments as a matter of course, while never coming near to fulfilling their own obligations in the alliance. As one U.S. official told reporters last week: "For a long time NATO has been a 20-mule-team wagon, with one mule pulling and the others sitting in the wagon. It is time for them to get out and pull...