Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anything move. In the 5½ months following Castro's Mexico-based invasion, his rebels learned how to fire from cover and silently slip away to fire again. Castro kept on the move constantly, toughening his men by day-long forced marches and showing them every strategic rock, gully and tall tree. He won the good will of mountain peasants by spending hours in conversation with them, paying them in cold Cuban cash for food and help. He kept discipline taut, collected recruits a few at a time. By the time last week's campaign began...
...happens. This place is just like any small town in Kansas. The same people belong to the Country Club as belong to the Kiwanis and the Thursday Evening" Literary Society. Spend a couple of years in a place like that and you think you're really king of the rock. You know everyone in town and everyone knows you and you think you're really something. Every place you go people know you. You forget that they're just the same people...
...goin' "), and it was time for the second performance. Fats slipped on his four-carat diamond ring, sank a horseshoe-shaped diamond stickpin in a rich new tie. From the stage, the whine of an electric guitar and the bleat of a sax vibrated through the walls; the rock 'n' roll picadors were wearing down the audience. As his handlers hovered, Fats stuffed himself into a fresh, shimmering suit, then stepped daintily out of the dressing room and trotted onstage for the kill...
...Arthur was a solicitor and civil-service administrator before he took over Rugby nine years ago. Asked about his views on rock 'n' roll, he said: "I know nothing about [it], but I'm prepared to study." As to the Third Program cuts, he had reassuring words: "I was somewhat appalled when I heard the BBC were cutting it down. But having gone into the matter, I find the change may not be as catastrophic as was first supposed." The BBC stands ready to remedy its new boss's lack of a TV set when...
...cannot, but his one-man band plays on to the rock and roll of the wide Pacific. Amid all the dedicated bores, Miller remains a fascinating character. He is rather proud to find himself an institution of sorts-the No. 1 U.S. Bohemian. One of the most appealing things in his book is his shyly proud report that his correspondence (including a postcard from Mecca) is filed in the special-collections division of the University of Southern California's library, a mass of 10,000 items which must comprise the biggest pile of profound piffle since Greenwich Village...