Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Labor Day weekend, a pop lyricist named Charles Grean (The Thing, Sweet Violets) was placidly cruising Long Island Sound in his 26-ft. skiff when he was struck by an inspiration. "With this hoop craze," he thought, "there's bound to be a song. Somebody ought to move fast!" Grean raced ashore and started to move. Next day he took his already completed lyrics around to his pal, Composer Bob Davie, and within an hour the two of them had batted out "a simple little teenage song with a good rock 'n' roll melody," named it Hoopa...
Fourth in the hula race was Dot Records, which recorded a number called Hula Hoop with Steve Allen, one of TV's intellectuals, as the featured singer. Its lyrics made the previous songs sound cerebral by comparison...
...spiritual side of driving a car came in for intensive study in Seattle last week at the first of what the National Safety Council hopes will be a nationwide series of "moral-emphasis safety workshops." Some 250 laymen and clergymen from the Puget Sound area-including Protestants, Roman Catholics, Greek Orthodox, Jews and Buddhists-met to discuss ways and means of awakening the conscience of the man behind the wheel...
...partner. In these tasks, a bidding system is an indispensable tool-but so are attention, memory, psychological perceptivity and clear thinking, plus that obscure talent called "card sense." In addition, a really good bridge player has a talent that Charles Goren defines as "the ability to make sound decisions under pressure." Rules, he warns, are made not as the player's master, but as servant. And despite sneers that he is a slave to his own system, few players can break the rules faster and more effectively than Charles Goren. Thus Goren once found himself in this tournament plight...
...will remember her as the girl with the aquamarine eyelids, is better. She has the appropriate freshness of face and figure, except for the eyelids, and is good at times; like Kulukundis, she is better at remonstrance than banter. But there came a time when her voice recalled the sound a tape recorder makes when played backwards at a high speed; fresh, perhaps, but unsettling...