Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...buyer, had 20 takers in the first week. With each Studebaker sale Washington's Lee Butler gave out one share of Stude-baker-Packard stock, free gasoline for the first 1,000 miles. Los Angeles dealers brought in customers by offering a stripped-down model at rock-bottom price, threw in a radio for $1 extra, white sidewalls for a second $1, automatic drive for a third...
...been ticklish work; the very reason for blasting away the hillside was that it threatened to slide into and block the canal-carrying with it the nervy men who were destroying it. Last week the danger ended. With 3,000,000 cubic yards of rock removed, engineers believed that the remaining potential slide-rock was too light to break loose. They will go on to remove the last 500,000 cubic yards, however. Then Contractor's Hill, once a sheer wall when seen from the canal, will be a terraced slope...
...House of Blue Lights (Chuck Miller; Mercury). A boogie-woogie in uptempo, with some nonsense words about boogie-woogie. The disk is a bestseller. Does it herald the decline of rock 'n' roll...
...Rare (The Three Haircuts; Victor). Funnyman Sid Caesar's answer to the inanities of rock 'n' roll records, disk-jockey lingo, and the hyped-up state of pop music in general. With a screaming, honking, socking background, the Haircuts mimic the Crew-Cuts with their howl: "Yew are sooo rare to me! So very rare to me! So if I'm rare to yew, won't yew be rare...
...warmer than it is today. This being the case, only the pass of Traversette, 10,000 feet high, could have plagued Hannibal's elephants with old snow. Sir Gavin investigated the Col de la Traversette and found that it contained, in just the right spot, a large, flat rock like the one where Hannibal camped near the top of his climb...