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Word: roomful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...know, s'got its roots in gospel, rhythm and blues. That's where it all sprang from." And then the Blossoms--remember the Blossoms? Hullabaloo? --come out and they do "Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Chile," while this incredible black dancer does a dance that everyone in the room likes. They liked a dancer on a TV special. No one likes dancers on TV. They always prance around and mince. These guys were studs, they had the moves. Then the Lieber-Stoller classic "I'm Saved," with Elvis leading...

Author: By John Leone, | Title: The King Revealed | 12/5/1968 | See Source »

...Make Room for Daddy starring Danny Thomas, who played Mr. Thomas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Who Remembers Gerald McBoing - Boing? | 12/3/1968 | See Source »

...soon as I unpacked I went to the Stiles dining room for lunch, and sat down alone. Two boys, who deliberated for a long time over the iced tea dispenser, sat down with...

Author: By Jody Adams, | Title: I, A Yale Coed | 12/2/1968 | See Source »

...student host was not happy to be a student host. He made it clear to me within ten minutes of our meeting that he had only volunteered his room because everyone else on his corridor had and he had been subject to some "pressure" and, besides, he had Law Boards on Saturday and he didn't like being dislocated before a test like that, and he hoped I didn't mind but he was going to take his radio and alarm clock with him when he left. He also let me know he intended to stay in his room...

Author: By Jody Adams, | Title: I, A Yale Coed | 12/2/1968 | See Source »

Everyone there was terribly polite. In fact, I was generally treated with more deference and gallantry in three days at Yale than I have been in three and a half years here. The boys at the News stood up when I came into the room, they helped me on and off with my coat, and they watched their language. I heard "Oh Sh . . . ugar" at least twice, and "F . . .ooey" once, which I must say embarrassed me a great deal more than what they had intended ever would have...

Author: By Jody Adams, | Title: I, A Yale Coed | 12/2/1968 | See Source »

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