Word: savoir
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sings old Leadbelly songs, Negro blues stuff, with a slow heavy beat, and effectively repititious chord patterns. His songs are humorous and his guitar technique dazzling (a technique which includes the use of a Hayes-Bickford knife to produce at points an odd sort of tone) and his general savoir-faire entirely compensates for the fact that, like many male folk singers, his voice sounds much like Jack Benny's Rochester...
...pride, he cried. "Don't you think Kasavubu has insulted you by trying to set up a new government without consulting you?" He opened the pork barrel, suggesting that there were 60 ambassadorial jobs to be filled in Congolese diplomatic posts abroad. "For these tasks of prestige and savoir faire, I must depend on you, my dear colleagues." smiled Lumumba...
Dear Tod, we like your savoir-faire Direct and deft and debonair. No pitch, no plaques, no benefits, No Ladies' Aid, no worker kits. Half-Nelson tactics aren't your dish You twist your ring and state your wish. The genie hears: Voila, a champ. The oil doth pour from Nelson's lamp...