Word: sambaing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cultured People) laid out for its readers the Hungarian Communist line on dancing. The waltz and polka are "traditionally democratic." The tango, fox trot and English waltz, though "reflections of the capitalist decline . . . cannot be classed with American dances. They may now be danced with taste." But the samba, swing, boogie-woogie, rumba, conga and the like "are tools of aggression let loose by the bosses of America against human culture and progress...
...days. But the East German who was called upon to pay the piper most heavily for not calling the Communist tune was Egon Sander of Pirna. Last week Egon was dragged off the floor of a Pirna restaurant, sentenced to two years in prison for dancing the samba. The dance, said his Communist judges, was "endangering to the life of the state...
Dried Meat is popular and well-regarded among his kind. When flush, he gives away fish and beans to favela dwellers. He dances a graceful samba. Sentimental and gallant, he has the names of his two sisters tattooed on his chest, and the names of half a dozen other girls on his-arms. He can also be masterful with the dames. Once a certain Dolores talked too much when the police were listening. Dried Meat shaved her head; everybody in the favelas thought it served her right...
...reporters told him that Chileans hadn't liked all the U.S. publicity about his samba dancing and fondness for late parties. "Ah," explained González with the unruffled air of a well-traveled diplomat, "in America the press gives great importance to private life; here the newspapers wouldn't even have noticed...
...four days and nights, Rio de Janeiro rocked to the torrid music of samba bands, the tin-shop crash of colliding motor cars, the laughter and shrieks of costumed revelers. Cariocas agreed that it was the greatest carnival they had ever celebrated...