Word: strums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...customs require new, uncustomary terms. Folk singers in Washington, D.C., strum the strings of an ax. At Chicago a strong drinker is a long hitter; at the University of Texas those who can't hold it crash and burn under the table. A bag is an object, group or mood. I am in a pizza bag means "I want pizza." Where is the beard bag? means "Where are the beatniks...
Strolling Plastiqueur. His odyssey started in Reno, where he sang for $5 in a cafe. Twanging through Western Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and India, he did not always do so well. He slipped into the kitchen at the Royal Palace in Copenhagen and strummed away to the delight of three scullery maids. But Denmark's King Frederick IX came to see what the noise was, listened for a while in amusement, then returned to his throne, leaving a hungry Bohn behind. Arriving in Algeria at the wrong time (November 1961), he strum-a-strum-strummed through...
Certifiably Sinful. A versifying virtuoso, Swinburne molded English into exotic patterns, borrowing widely from the classic Greek to the French symbolists. The results, which ranged from strum-strumming stanzas to languorous rhythms, hinted at unimaginable pagan debaucheries, hymned the fashionable cause of freedom against tyranny. But constitutionally, though he sported a manelike shock of red hair, Swinburne was comically ill-equipped to live the Byronic life he longed for. Tadpole tall and squeaky-voiced, he was forever getting drunk on the dessert wine, and more often than not had to be carried home from dinner parties...
...Liberals' Pearson pronounced himself "delighted" with the June date and got off the first blows in a last Commons blast. Pearson judged Canada's affairs to be "in a morass from which the government is unable to retreat with grace or emerge with credit," went on to strum the two themes that the Liberals intend to stress on the hustings: that the Tories have shown themselves unable to cope with "economic stagnation" at home, and are answerable for a decline in Canada's prestige abroad. Recalling that the Tories once thundered against the pre-1957 Liberal regime...
...scene is set at a party. An aggressive hostess is urging Rosie, a reject from a Pete Seeger concert, to strum her ole guitar. Rosie offers a little tune she picked up from an oppressed refugee once...