Word: sittin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scene that took place more than 30 years ago. It was as vivid to him then as the night it happened. "It was during the depression. Let me see, it was nineteen and thirty . . . two. I was workin' with Evan Thomas in Crowley, Louisiana. We was all sittin' out in the sun by the railroad tracks one day, and Bunk was ridin' a flatcar on a freight train. He was lookin' for work. When he seen us, he jumped off that train and come over to me with a big grin. He says, 'Hi, George. Need a trumpet player...
...American Negro has endured Little Rock and Selma; he will survive Missitucky, the mythological country of Finian's Rainbow. There, on a beaming day, a father (Fred Astaire) and his daughter (Petula Clark) wander into a valley where white and cullud folks are jes a-sittin' and a-singin' and a-waitin' for somethin' to happen. Nothin' does. A leprechaun (Tommy Steele) wanders in, a lot of galvanic twitching goes on in the name of choreography, and eventually a white-supremacist Senator (Keenan Wynn) gets changed into a Negro. At the end, when everybody...
...Georgian in the best Sergeant York tradition. In one day, he killed 14 Communists, captured 21, and seized seven weapons. "I walked off by myself up this little creek," he explained. "There was five of them up there by this little straw hooch they had made. They was just sittin' there coolin' it. I shot four of them. Then I went on up the creek some more and three of them jumped up. They looked like they were going to shoot, so I put my rifle on them. They all took off running so I shot them...
...world on a string, sittin' on a rainbow...