Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...swap" was involved, it was hardly a coincidence that that same day Castro released an Eastern Air Lines Electra valued at $2,500,000, that had been hijacked and flown to Havana on July 24th. Harris reluctantly released the boat. Said he, in a formal statement: "We recognize the paramount responsibility we have as American citizens, and in an effort to demonstrate national unity, we are relinquishing our equity in the Cuban gunboat." But he insisted that his legal rights had been overridden: "You can't knock out due process of law by a press statement from the State...
...probably caused Charles Dickens to stir in his grave, tap his foot and smile. A 32-year-old former Somersetshire blacksmith. Bilk acquired his skills on the clarinet in an army guardhouse after he fell asleep on sentry duty. Wearing bowler hats and striped waistcoats Acker Bilk and his Paramount Jazz Band are half New Orleans and half Somerset cider, thumping out numbers like Run Come See Jerusalem and Ory's Creole Trombone, while Bilk makes Louis Armstrong-style comments. At last year's annual trad jazz festival at Beaulieu. Bilk was in such demand that fans shouting...
Enroll Garner: Dreamstreet (ABC-Paramount). The first recording in almost three years by the distinguished acrobat whose feats must be heard to be disbelieved. Pianist Garner still has more than his fair share of fingers, but their presence often stupefies rather than charms. A notable exception: the trip-hammered, polyrhythmic ride he gives to the Rodgers-Hart lady who was a tramp...
...Riddle is district commissioner of darkest Alabasa province in an unnamed British Colony in West Africa, a living legend to his fellow officers, and the sex-dreamboat of their wistful wives. In the end, Riddle turns against his own bumbling government, gets together with the Balabasa of Alabasa, the paramount chief and head of the Python Cult, and declares Alabasa an independent state...
...hours, Reddy Kilowatt was blacked out. Seated at a great church organ, the organist laid ten fingers down on a blasting Bachian chord-and lost it. At Vic Tanny's, dozens of reducers stared in blubbery relief as the complicated electrical contraptions halted their pummeling. At the Paramount Theater, where the projectors run on DC current but the sound on AC, Elvis Presley was silenced at last...