Word: roll
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cumon, now! Rock 'n' roll was not originally a "copulative verb." The term was used quite commonly among seafaring men in the 17th century, and referred to an ancient sea chanty with numerous verses and the repeating chorus...
...rock and roll me over...
Simon Says. The bubble-gum trend has been puffed up largely by a 25-year-old former actor and rock-'n'-roll singer named Neil Bogart. Last year, as general manager of the newly formed Buddah record label, he set the formula with a recording called Simon Says. It sold 1,700,000 copies. The latest in a line of 28 similar disks is Yummy, Yummy, Yummy, by the Ohio Express, which last week was No. 15 on Billboard's bestseller chart...
...with my head, arms or legs." He is, of course, more likely to shatter his spine-landing as he does, flush on his shoulder blades. Dick airily dismisses the danger, and besides, his technique is actually a matter of necessity. Using the orthodox frontwards straddle roll, the highest Fosbury can jump...
...outdone by Moth, Longaville, when it comes time to read his sonnet, picks up the hand-mike and turns the poem into a rock 'n' roll number with off-stage singers and orchestra. Following suit, Dumaine, flipping the microphone cord like a boa, caresses himself and gyrates as he belts out his rock sonnet while the other men provide a snap-fingered accompaniment--a number that deservedly stops the show...