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Word: sing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Bentley J. Tolk '87-'90, a member of the Harvard Krokodiloes, stepped forward to sing a line from "Johnny O'Connor" during the group's Valentine's Day concert, neither the audience nor his fellow songsters were expecting anything unusual...

Author: By Christopher G. Azzoli, | Title: Harvard's Vaudeville: Groups Hit High Note | 4/21/1988 | See Source »

...campy wonder, flouncing a hip to announce, "Honeee, I've had my fun. I've been uptown at the Apollo, don't you know?" At other moments he seems to share the crowd's delight at the ineptitude of the worst performers. "So that's how they sing in Georgia," he sniffs, after a young man who'd driven all the way from Atlanta falls to pieces at center stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Amateur Night In New York: Triumph and Terror at the Apollo | 4/18/1988 | See Source »

...women members of KOHR will perform a traditional Korean fan dance, and women from Smith College's Korean Students Association will sing Korean folk songs...

Author: By Lukas P. Barr, | Title: Korean Club to Hold Festival This Saturday | 4/14/1988 | See Source »

These protesters don't deserve to use the catchier slogans they dragged out for their spring sing-a-long outside 17 Quincy Street last weekend--those belong to another age when radical students believed in their causes and took drastic actions to further them...

Author: By John C. Yoo, | Title: Ties and Takeovers Don't Mix | 4/12/1988 | See Source »

...long way from the $150 a week Griffin made as a Big Band crooner in the late '40s, when he recorded I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Cocoanuts. Once a boy blimp who weighed 240 lbs., Griffin shed a third of that bulk so he could sing on stage. He later had a brief movie career, which included one line in a Doris Day film. Guest appearances for Jack Paar, Johnny Carson's predecessor in NBC-TV's late-night spot, won Griffin his own daytime talk show in 1960, which he syndicated. It was so successful that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Talk Shows to Takeovers | 4/4/1988 | See Source »

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