Word: tonk
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...more than discipline may be needed. While conditions on the honky-tonk strip helped to spark the riots, a more basic cause was the trainees' anger over their dismal housing. They derisively call the aging barracks "Idi Amin's Castle" and the "Haven for Thieves." There is little privacy, toilets frequently do not work, and locker doors are so flimsy that thefts of cash, clothes and cameras are common...
...Stones have always been more of an album-oriented band--the classic Exile on Main Street, probably their finest, produced only one top twenty hit ("Tumbling Dice") from eighteen songs. And although "Honky Tonk Women" remains the prototype for a rock'n'roll 45, singles for the Stones have always been throwaways...
Subic Bay, a major liberty port for the U.S. Seventh Fleet, has a permanent base force of 8,000-swollen by as many as 9,000 sailors passing through on shore leave. Much of their contribution to the local economy is made in the honky-tonk town of Olongapo, where the principal commodity for sale is sex. About 15,000 Olongapo residents are registered "bar girls," many of them infected with a penicillin-resistant strain of gonorrhea known as "Viet Nam Rose." According to Navy estimates, American sailors spent $128 million in Olongapo last year...
...Where the powerful and the privileged usually dine, a buffet is laid on for members of the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing. Where Casals once played, the entertain ment is a sort of tribal rite in which the guests whoop it up to a Texas honky-tonk beat. The placid evening air is pierced by a singer's plangent...
...charts, to quit the road and spend more time with his family (he and Connie have daughters, ages 8 and 5, scarcely older than the four grandchildren that stem from his first marriage). But Willie knows the touring will never end. First and last he is a honky-tonk troubadour. To see him on a bandstand is to see a man truly in his element. He is hunched over his battered Martin acoustic guitar, nodding and smiling as the applause of recognition washes over the opening bars of each number; singing to a shouted obbligato of "You said it, Willie...