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Word: shagging (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Opera singers, like athletes, are nuts for conditioning-only nuttier. Where Mickey Mantle may shag a few fly balls, Baritone Robert Merrill stands on his head. Where Mickey Wright will hit a few off the practice tee, Mezzo-Soprano Rosalind Elias gargles champagne and does a belly dance. And for a preperformance pick-me-up, singers will have none of that sissy business of pep talks. They eat garlic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Singing, with Love & Garlic | 11/18/1966 | See Source »

...think the Beatles are one of the best things to come to America since jazz. Their music is different, but not if you understand the feel. We teen-agers love the Beatles, shag-mopped, screaming and pop-wailers that they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 28, 1964 | 2/28/1964 | See Source »

...despite the perennial popularity of Sherlock Holmes, dripping shag tobacco from his well-blackened clay pipe; despite the graceful pipemanship of Bing Crosby; even despite the theories of Freud about what pipe smoking really means-pipe smoking is on the decline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Customs: Between Clenched Teeth | 11/30/1962 | See Source »

...master puppeteer: Rumania's Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, Hungary's Janos Kadar, Byelorussia's Kirill Mazurov, Bulgaria's Todor Zhivkov, Albania's Mehmet Shehu, Czechoslovakia's Antonin Novotny. Symbolically, Poland's Wladyslaw Gomulka, his frosty-white hair matted in an undisciplined shag, took his seat in a distant corner, tied to Khrushchev by ideology but less than the others by strings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Battleground | 10/3/1960 | See Source »

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