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Word: sing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Congregationalist missionary, was a stern taskmaster and a finger-wagging moralist who admonished his girl students not to go around arousing the boys. Williams so burdened his class with assignments that two of its members-Morrie Ryskind, whose lyrics for 1932's Of Thee I Sing won him a Pulitzer Prize, and the late Hearst Columnist George Sokolsky-went on a brief strike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Schools: Fat, Fifty & Still Fertile | 4/26/1963 | See Source »

...performance towers over all the others: Sidney Goldfarb, who plays Smith, the town's brick-maker, has and gives a better time than anybody. Mr. Goldfarb's self-assurance and gusto are limitless. He really can't sing, but whatever he does with a song, I like it; he really can't dance, but I value his twist beyond measure...

Author: By Michael W. Schwartz, | Title: Babel | 4/25/1963 | See Source »

...Break it up; go back to your rooms and sing," ordered the officers. "Singing on MDC land is against the law of the Common wealth...

Author: By Peter R. Kann, | Title: Police Disperse Singers On Charles River Bank | 4/22/1963 | See Source »

...Folk singing along the Charles is not a new occurrence. Large crowds gathered to listen to musicians on the riverbank last spring without arousing police action. One musician recalled a Sunday last spring when two MDC officers stopped and listened to a gospel-sing for over an hour and then simply drove...

Author: By Peter R. Kann, | Title: Police Disperse Singers On Charles River Bank | 4/22/1963 | See Source »

Asked if there would be any protest against yesterday's police action, one folksinger commented, "Well, I suppose we might just go down there and sing next Sunday and see what happens...

Author: By Peter R. Kann, | Title: Police Disperse Singers On Charles River Bank | 4/22/1963 | See Source »

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