Word: polkas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...condition was quickly fulfilled. Calling the foreign press corps to his home, Premier Joseph Ileo produced the grinning prisoner in a striped charcoal-grey suit and green polka-dot tie. Tshombe promptly took the floor. After two months under guard, he seemed a changed man. Gone was his anger at his captors; gone, too, was all the talk of Katanga as a separate nation. "Katanga has always wanted to collaborate with the rest of its brethren in the Congo," he said, as if he had always felt that way. "Katanga is an industrial province. It needs customers. Building customs barriers...
...violin, steel guitar) were busy taping enough bluegrass tunes to enable them to leave their daily radio show for one of their frequent concert tours. On the road, dressed in black jackets, red string ties and white Stetson hats, they scramble frantically through Foggy Mountain Special, Randy Lynn Rag, Polka on the Banjo, Shuckin' The Corn, giving each piece the knuckle-cracking momentum and the curiously high-pitched, pinging tone that is the mark of bluegrass style. For a dramatic finisher, Flatt may lift his nasal, sowbelly voice in an enduring country hit named Give Me Flowers While...
...Gino Severini prized abstract, rhythmic forms that could evoke associations involving all the senses. His Dynamic Hieroglyph of the Bal Tabarin (see color) is a jumbled panorama of twirling skirts, a laughing face, the monocle of an aristocratic cafégoer, hints of music and noise through words ("valse," "polka," "bowling...
...Much set singers off in a frenzy of denial, confession and recrimination: I Don't Talk Too Much, I Talk Too Much, Who Talks Too Much? The craze has even provided an answer to what happened to the girl who lost the Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini. Her name, according to 14-year-old Songstress Jeri Lynne Eraser, was Begonia, and out there in the water Poor Begonia Caught Pneumonia...
...state government for most of the century. Carefully the Democrats hammered out their own machine-a three-wheeled speedster that rolled on the vote-delivering power of union leaders, the organizational wizardry of Democratic Chairman Neil Staebler, and the popularity of ebullient bow-tied Soapy Williams, who could out-polka any Polish-American in Hamtramck...