Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ORLANDO, Fla.--"Stand up for America" is the slogan, and they came last night to stand up and sing and shout and dance for America, because Alabama Governor George C. Wallace had just swept to an overwhelming victory in the Florida Democratic primary...
...Club 47 on Palmer Street was really the new Club 47 on Palmer Street. Being one of those who sang regularly in the Old Club 4', Mt. Auburn I can also, with some certainty, say that Joan, Bob and Dave did not sing on Palmer Street...
Contingents of army, navy and air force - 120 men of each service - circle the field and begin to sing The Three Rules of Discipline and the Eight Points of Attention, a Red Army ballad from the 1930s. Still no Chou or anyone else around to suggest the momentous collision of East and West. About ten minutes before touchdown, the silence of the sky is broken. The presidential plane drops into view...
THOSE Depression lyrics from the musical Sing for Your Supper were first presented to the public in 1939 by the Works Progress Administration. At the same time, that agency was covering the country with highways, bridges, sidewalks, sewers and dams, giving free piano lessons to housewives and eventually providing jobs for 8.5 million Americans who otherwise would have been unemployed. Its activities have suddenly become of considerably more than antiquarian interest. The Nixon Administration has sneered that Democrats pushing public employment programs to relieve current joblessness are only "rediscovering the WPA" although at least one Administration official has suggested that...
More than half of the money went for construction. But since WPA Administrator Harry Hopkins believed that man did not live by concrete alone, WPA gave work to thousands of writers, artists, musicians and actors. In addition to Sing for Your Supper, the agency's Federal Theater Project spread the works of Shakespeare, Marlowe and Eugene O'Neill. The Federal Writers' Project published about 1,000 books and pamphlets; its famous American Guide Series is still a mainstay. For good or ill, the Federal Art Project revived mural painting, largely to decorate public buildings. The Federal Music...