Word: thought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...given some thought to the possibility," Kawakami said after the election, "but there were several other people who might have gotten it who really deserved it. I knew that they don't always elect juniors, and there was a large group of returning sophomores who all could have made fine captains...
...north--King Oliver, Johnny Dodds, Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong. The New Orleans music they took with them began its metamorphosis in the 20's and 30's, evolving into swing and big band dance music, and later into bop and progressive jazz. Most collectors in the 40's thought that the traditional black jazz of New Orleans remained only on a few early discs as a faded chapter in the history of American music...
...thought about all this as I sat by George's hospital bed last fall. He had just had a heart attack three days before that, but he seemed to be stronger now. His face looked healthy; it had a tautness and tone that I hadn't seen for a long time. When I first saw him at Preservation Hall, every muscle and vein in his face tensed and pulsed with his music...
...gasping for breath. He could only talk in spurts when the attack eased momentarily. My father grabbed the phone and called a hospital, and I was left alone in the room with George. He gasped for breath, stared at me. "You the one now, Tommy," he said suddenly. He thought he was dying. "I had a good life," he gasped, "I made history." He thought these words were to be among his last, probably. "It all come on me so fast," he said, "so fast." He couldn't breathe...
...America' you shouldn't have to worry about police busting into your apartment and beating you up. I specifically remember seeing a TV show around thirteen years ago about an immigrant couple who still had their old country fears and thought the mailman was a cop coming to take them away. They weren't confused; they were just ahead of their time...