Word: mule
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...know how to train a mule?" drawls pistol-toting Editor Dan Hicks Jr. between drags on a dead briar pipe. "First you got to hit him over the head with a two-by-four to get his attention. That's what I did to Madisonville. Now they know I'm here and won't go away. As long as I've got a typewriter and a piece of paper, they can't put me out of business...
Accordingly, Williams feels that black demands for reparations are sound "in principle." Tactically, even James Forman's flamboyant pulpit takeovers may have been necessary, Williams concedes. "My uncle was a farmer and he had mules to work with. One day I saw him take a sapling and knock a mule to the ground. When I protested, he said, 'Son, I had to get his attention.' " Even violent resistance, says Williams, may be necessary some day. "I do not counsel violence," he insists. "It is a dangerous weapon. But it is conceivable that there are circumstances where...
...first Blue Grass recording was made in 1940, the successful "Mule-skinner Blues," a tune authored by another pioneer of early country music, Jimmy Rodgers, the "Singing Brakeman." In these early days, Bill Monroe's band contained mandolin, guitar, fiddle and string bass, the last of these being the only instrument not found in traditional country music. In 1945 the Blue Grass band took the form in which it remains today, with the addition of a five-string banjo, played by Earl Scruggs in the now universal three-finger style. which bears little resemblance to the earlier "claw hammer" style...
...debut as a rodeo rider, Monty Milhous, 19, was ignominiously tossed by a Brahma bull called Old Brindle. Earlier in the Fresno, Calif., show President Nixon's second cousin had another brief tangle-five seconds of the required eight-second ride-with a mean old mule named Khrushchev...
...that to argue aesthetics with Mr. Aubrey would be quite futile, as the producer of The Beverly Hillbillies is apparently a stranger to "the science which deduces from nature and taste the rules and principles of art" (American College Dictionary again). It would be like arguing honor with a mule. Or a cobra...