Word: strumming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lady nabbed him during the intermission and explained that she had just begun guitar lessons and wanted to know how much practicing it would take until she could play "without looking." So Seeger offered his audience some advice on playing the guitar: "See how you strum; just keep the beat with your thumb, and it's as easy as walking. Of course it takes you two years to learn how to walk...
...fullback at Yale ('27), as an upstate New Yorker served ten years in the state legislature. He moved to Washington in 1945, held a variety of executive posts (e.g., E.G.A., Civil Defense) before joining Lodge. At the U.N., affable James Wadsworth was in steady demand at parties to strum his guitar and sing rich-baritone folk songs. Often he included a personal favorite, Stormy Weather, which he now, after two years of negotiating with the Russians, wryly calls "my disarmament song...
...them, the three do their best to festoon themselves in Ivy, wear button-down shirts, even chose the name Kingston because it had a ring of Princeton about it as well as a suggestion of calypso. Sporting close-cropped hair and a deceptive Social Studies i-A loo, they strum guitars and banjos, foam like dentifrice, tumble onto nightclub stages as if the M.C. had caught them in the middle of their own private party...
...Jersey mutual-fund and investment operator, Morris M. Townsend, moved in quickly, took an option to buy the old Slayton sales firms if he won the proxy battle, hired Slayton salesmen to sell Managed Funds shareholders the Townsend case. The Channing Corp., headed by Kenneth S. Van Strum, which operates eight mutual funds worth $218 million, challenged Townsend. It pointed out to Managed Funds' stockholders that, if Townsend won, the Slaytons would reap another profit through the sale of Slayton firms to Townsend. This proved a decisive argument to disgruntled proxy voters; last week Channing won handily...