Word: songe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were peacefully sitting in the bus going to Leon, a city in northern Spain, when someone suggested we all sing songs to pass the time. There was one catch: The students from each country had to sing a song distinctive of their homeland. The Russians went first and sang an old folk song. The Germans followed with a rendition of their national anthem. The Americans were next. What would we sing...
...huddled together. Various ideas were proposed. "The Star Spangled Banner?" Some of us couldn't hit the high notes; others hated the song with a passion. "This Land Is Your Land?" We didn't know the words. "Take Me Out to the Ballgame?" No big baseball fans here. Finally, we narrowed the choice down to either the "Brady Bunch" theme or "99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall." We got down to 85 bottles and then gave into the demands of irate Europeans and Asians to shut...
...days before the Olympics, and the tune keeps turning around in Gary Hall Jr.'s head. The song is called The Wheel, by his favorite band, the Grateful Dead, and it goes, "The wheel is turning, and you can't slow down." And then, "Won't you try just a little bit harder? Couldn't you try just a little bit more...
...Hall is, as the song lyrics imply, that he does not try hard enough. His coach, the former Olympian Troy Dalbey, quit six weeks ago, complaining that Hall was training lackadaisically. Last month at a meet in Santa Clara, California, Hall placed 14th in the 50-m freestyle and 41st in the 100 m. His performance was a far cry from his explosive showing at the U.S. Olympic trials in March, when he qualified for the 50-m and 100-m freestyles, and the 4x100-m freestyle and medley relays...
Today Braxton, with her frankly sexual (though never explicit) songs, seems to be making up for lost time. The first single released from Secrets, You're Makin Me High, deals with masturbation. Another song bears the blunt title Find Me a Man. Her parents, she says, are proud of her music, and her father, in church, prays for her albums to climb the charts. Three of her sisters, Towanda, Trina and Tamar, have their own vocal group, the Braxtons (Toni was once a member but went solo). Braxton, however, isn't completely fulfilled. Although she is "dating," she says...