Word: skips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fingers sounded the familiar oo-bla-dee and ba-ree-bop, the old phrases rang like new coinage. Which was only right, since Mary Lou minted them first. In the old days when she played "zombie music" and early bop, her style was constantly in transition, constantly a skip ahead of jazz. Now, "playing in the tradition" is a high ideology with her, and any echo of the avant-garde enrages her. "Have you heard these 'freedom' players?"* she asks, lips curling in disgust. "They're making people sick all over town...
...Justice Department, which moved quickly in the fear that DeAngelis might try to skip the country, is not alone in its desire to get to the bottom of DeAngelis' tangled affairs. Senator John L. McClellan, who never minds working in the glare of headlines, has launched a "quiet study" to see whether his investigative committee should look in. Convinced that any new controls by Washington would smother trading, the nation's commodity exchanges have set up committees to stiffen margin requirements and trading rules. Nonetheless, other indictments are expected to follow the one handed down last week...
...first of these was the Advanced Placement program, which permitted a student who had done college-level work in three subjects to enter as a sophomore, and to skip two of his required General Education courses. This led, in turn, to a well-founded suspicion that someone in a position of authority thought that General Education courses were more or less interchangeable with other courses and also thought that three college-level courses of any sort could be equated in some way with two General Education courses. The second confusing innovation was the Freshman Seminar program--for suddenly the General...
...circulation figures since the strike. On Sundays, the absence of huge weekend editions came to some people as a positive relief, freeing them for other activities. When the papers came back, many readers who were delighted to pick up their workaday reading habits, also found themselves content to skip Sunday, comics...
...nations was mixed with doubts. Both had a proper, if sometimes unpopular, British upbringing. They both had rapidly growing populations, 15% to 25% unemployment, and a heavy dependence on outside capital. Though their problems remain, Jamaica and Trinidad-Tobago seem to be finding their way with hardly a skip of a calypso beat...