Word: popping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Little (pop. 900) Medina, N. Dak., which pronounces the name to rhyme with "refiner," got ready to vote on a proposal to change its pronunciation to rhyme with "arena," as a tribute to Federal Judge Harold R. Medina, who presided over the recent trial of eleven U.S. Communist big shots...
Last week in Nacogdoches, Texas (pop. 11,700) more than 4,000 delegates to the interdenominational Tri-State (Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas) Singing Convention were still challenging the devil's priority. In spite of heavy rains, sticky red clay roads and a football game across the way, they crowded into the white frame gymnasium at Stephen Austin State Teachers College. There for two straight days they kept the rafters ringing with gospel jazz, gospel hillbilly ballads, gospel blues...
...loving Dr. Gustavus Capito of Charleston., W. Va. used to get a lump in his throat when he listened to Smetana's Moldau. He wondered why some American composer couldn't write as good a piece about the Kanawha, the river that flows through his home town (pop...
...years, Oregon has had a law forbidding high-school secret societies but in Oregon's largest city, high-school kids have paid no attention. In Portland (pop. 400,000), the societies flourish. They have mysterious names like EUK, Pack and Domino; they pledge socially prominent classmates, hotshot athletes or just kids "who have something," from convertibles to "cute personalities...
Maybe it's because the time is ripe in mid-season; maybe it's because Dartmouth Indians suddenly become gay when they leave their Hanover reservation and travel to the Hub, whatever it is, things always seem to pop in Cambridge on the weekend of the Dartmouth game...