Word: trots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rumbling of a 41-gun salute and glowering dark clouds in the London skies, Liberia's President William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman, 66, was greeted by Queen Elizabeth II-marking 114 years of Anglo-Liberian friendship. As they boarded an open landau for the 40-minute trot to Buckingham Palace along with squads of Household Cavalry, the rains came. The Queen balanced a royal bumbershoot, but President Tubman had only his black topper to ward off the downpour as he waved to the smattering of onlookers along their route. At the palace, the Queen gave a very wet Tubman...
...glowed again with the President's annual reception for the diplomatic corps. Jackie brought back the Strolling Strings and also the Marine Band jazz combo for dancing-scheduled. The hit of the evening was new Russian Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin, who whisked his attractive brunette wife through a fox trot, insisted the step was "typical Russian." Among the early evening kibitzers was Caroline Kennedy, who appeared in an organdy dress and bandaged chin, proudly explained that she had cut her chin while capering alongside the White House swimming pool...
With its echoes of the fox trot, the blues, the shimmy, and with its bold melodies and dramatic rhythms, the score remains as compelling as ever. At last week's Heidelberg revival, the orchestra of only 30 players was heavy on winds rather than strings, managed to re-create with remarkable skill the tinny, strident sound of oldtime jazz bands. The opera's cast of criminals, procurers and prostitutes were re-creations of the fantasy Americans dreamed up by Socialist Brecht. Their anarchic world was a caricature of turn-of-the-century capitalism...
They currently plan to run a five mile freestyle, a four mile Behemoth Bop, and a three mile Tusking Trot. Competing elephants will be lodged at nearby Disneyland...
...dance band can squeeze in more than one quick waltz or fox trot before the crowd begins chanting "Tvist! Tvist!" The bands quickly oblige. In less than two months, German record companies have spun out 300,000 twist disks, hope to triple their sales in six months. Of 100 different twist tunes, none on the market is more popular than a weirdie called Liebestraum von Liszt Twist, which is selling nearly 30,000 platters a week. Sample lyrics...