Word: somehow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SOMEHOW rock'n roll got old. It didn't seem possible that a year had passed since Elvis died--more than 20 years since he cut "Hound Dog," "All Shook Up," "Jailhouse Rock," and "Don't Be Cruel." But it was true, and that was how I came to be riding all night from Connecticut down to Tennessee with a busload of middle-aged women hell-bent on reaching the graveside of their dead king on the first anniversary of his death. That was how I came to meet Janey Cray, who swooned over Elvis when she was young...
...Although there were men on the bus, there were only three besides myself. One had been dragged along by his wife--he hunched his shoulders as though he were trying to make himself inobtrusive, and he didn't talk much. The other two were elderly gentlemen who had somehow gotten the impression that the tour was stopping for a show at the Grand Ole Opry. It wasn...
...assume that he's going in there because his buddies are there, the people who've been nicer to him than anybody else. War? What war? This is a musical, baby, and the soldiers might just as well dance off into the sunset. Something essential gets lost, but somehow it doesn't matter. Unless, as with most musicals, you muse at length...
...that has all changed now. Joseph Kennedy Jr. was persuaded not to run for treasurer and the rumors about an indictment of Crane faded. Somehow, all of Crane's personal connections with banks doing business with the state have not come back to haunt the incumbent, as many expected. Instead, Crane has had some success in stressing improvements in the treasurer's office...
...huge sense of grievance festers. The injustice of the courts seems to mirror the injustice of the economic system. All the rules of society seem to have been changed. You work hard, but inflation destroys your gains; so much for the work ethic. You obey the law, but somehow you get hurt and criminals profit, unpunished...