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Word: polkas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pelvic Polka. Youth's greatest malaise is simple Soviet boredom. Endless bitter jokes damn the drabness of life under Communism. Asks one: "Is there life on Mars?" Answer: "No, there isn't any there either." Asks another: "Is it possible to build Communism in only one country?" "Certainly, but who wants to live there?" Russia lacks the drugstores, coffee bars or bowling alleys where the young can congregate, although there is a scattering of ice cream parlors. Cinemas are few and crowded; getting tickets to the Bolshoi or Moscow Art Theater takes hours of waiting in line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: A Longing for Truth | 4/13/1962 | See Source »

...green polka-dot bow tie his trademark, Williams also if the of South Africa its present course, "the result disastrous." But unless negs occur, he continued, the "internal force will be to hold the black Africans in ." He called South Africa a which is "technically independant so far as the black Africans are the country isn't indepen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tshombe Visit Harmful To U.S. Williams Says | 3/5/1962 | See Source »

...from the stage: "I told you. Mom! I told you!" His formal education ceased at that level and, to his mother's dismay, he spent the next few years standing around on street corners, usually dressed in a grey suit, a pearl grey double-breasted vest, a yellow polka-dot tie, a polka-dot handkerchief, a polka-dot scarf, a chesterfield, a derby and spats-doing absolutely nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: The Big Hustler Jackie Gleason | 12/29/1961 | See Source »

...Calais, he has caused tumult and bloodshed. Hoods in Paris, inspired by the sounds from his lips, tore three subway cars apart in his honor. But the words that provoked riot and rampage were not, as one might expect, Algerian battle cries. They were "itsy bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini," sung by Johnny Hallyday, France's first and only authentic rock 'n' roller, the Elvis Presley of Thither Gaul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tin Pan Allee: Frere Johnny | 11/24/1961 | See Source »

...Fanciulla opens, a crowd of gold miners surges into the Polka ("A Real Home for the Boys"), order "veeskey" and proceed to drink a toast ("Veils Fargo!" shouts one sport; "Ip! ip!" reply the miners). The most unpopular man in the place is Sheriff Jack Ranee, who divides his time between lusting after Minnie, the Polka's owner, and pursuing a bandit named Ramerrez. In Act I, Minnie falls in love with Dick Johnson, a stranger in the Polka, invites him up to her place on the mountain only to learn in Act II that he is Ramerrez. When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Old Horse, New Saddle | 11/3/1961 | See Source »

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