Word: singed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...engaged a platoon of little boys in a snowball fight in Jaffrey, and that same night wound up straddling an onstage chair to hear the Keene Lion's Club chorus rehearse. The Lions roared Brotherhood of Man, and Rocky cracked: "You ought to go down to Washington and sing it." As far as winning in New Hampshire was concerned, Rockefeller refused to make a prediction, said that he just wanted "at least one vote and one delegate more than anyone else...
...remarkable thing about Tony's new, improved career is that he has done it all without learning to sing any better. His voice is as flat as it is strong; his timing slips and falters like a water wheel in a drought. He delivers a song clearly, cleanly, warmly, paying great heed to the lyrics, making up in feeling what he lacks in old-fashioned talent...
...word filtered over the bush telegraph that no electoral patrols would be attacked, "even with sticks and stones." In 12,000 villages and thousands of isolated hamlets, the teams used films to teach the natives voting techniques. To offset tribal boredom, lectures were interspersed with tape recordings of local "sing-sing" music. But presentations occasionally flopped. In one back-country village, natives complained that the voter shown on one of the election drawings was unknown to them. "Dispela man humbug mi no lookin dispela man wantain bepo," said the tribal spokesman in fluent pidgin. ("This is humbug...
...begins to "educate" him. "first lesson ... I dig my nails into his armpit right hand right pit he cries I withdraw then thump with fist on skull his face sinks in the mud his cries cease end of first lesson." Pim learns not to cry but to sing when he is jabbed in the armpit. Why? Because, his tormentor reasons, he must say to himself, "this man is no fool, what is required of me that I am tormented thus not sadism pure and simple not that I should cry that is evident since when I do I am punished...
John Lennon, organizer of the group, never knew his father, who left home when John was three. John went through grammar school and into art college, where he married a classmate. They have a baby son. With Paul McCartney, Lennon has written most of the songs the Beatles sing-and he coined the name Beatle to suggest the steady pounding beat of the rhythms of rock...