Word: thinkin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bitten and taciturn West Virginians were confused and worried. "That John," said an Irish-born shot-firer in the Kanawha coalfields, "he be the greatest man of the 20th Century, but I be damned if we'uns can figure him out this time ... I think John be a thinkin' o'hisself...
Louis, a modest man, makes no bones about what he owes to Joe Oliver in the Chicago days: "We never had to look at each other when we played, both just thinkin' the same thing. And he's the one that stopped me playin' all those variations-what they call bebop today. 'You get yourself a lead [melody] and you stick to it,' Papa Joe told me. And I always do." It was the kind of jazz that didn't take written arrangements, if a man had "a lead" and could "cut loose from...
...chair, and everything begun to look dazey . . . It was like the white folks watching was in a big swing, and they'd swing away and back and then right up close. When they put the black bag over my head, I was all locked up . . . with loud thinkin...
...will attack and two will ram,' he says to the captain. 'Will we attack, sir?' the Captain says, probably thinkin' that Tovey, bein' the admiral, might pick the easier of the jobs. 'No, you bloody fool, we'll ram!' old Splash says. Just then the Warspite* behind us signaled and asked him what the bloody hell he was doin'. 'Am pursuin' small detachment of Italian destroyers,' he signals back. But somehow the Warspite and some more of our battleships got in between us and them, and that...
...Griffin couldn't sleep; a wild idea chased through his mind. Finally it drove him to put on his clothes, hustle off to the plant to tell his boss. Soon 1,500 questioned employes of Lockheed-Vega voted to put it in practice. The idea: "I got to thinkin' about Christmas and about all those bombers we're making for the British. . . . And I got this idea about making them a Christmas present of one of the bombers...