Word: upbeat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...adding drums and clarinet to the traditional guitar accompaniment. Its chief exponent is sunny Maria da Fe, 24, who sings such classics as It's as Empty and Cold as My Heart to a sizzling jazz beat. Pop fado has also given rise to such variations as the upbeat "new-look fado" and "fado blues." And at the University of Coimbra, the students have turned their romantic ballads into protest songs, at least one of which was virulent enough to be banned by the government...
There is much that is defensive and self-conscious about this man, who on "What's My Line?" could probably never convince the panel that he has been a disc jockey since he was 17 and yet who broadcasts WBZ's most upbeat and teenage-oriented program. He rarely uses a word of slang off the air, never calls his music "rock 'n' roll" (it is always "pop music"), and emphasizes that "99 per cent of my friends have nothing to do with the business. You have to get away. You can't be on the air 24 hours...
Education), as its dean. The school has been on the upbeat ever since...
Residents of Las Vegas profess to be undisturbed by their town's sincity reputation. They euphemize gambling into "gaming," and stress upbeat touches such as the way Craps Dealer Ralph Hicks ends his trick at The Golden Nugget and rushes off to preside as president of the Western High School P.T.A...
...session, 2,930,000 shares changed hands, more than in any hour since 1929. As bystanders watched eagerly to see if the Dow-Jones industrial average would crack its historic high of 939.62 set last May, stocks bobbed back and forth. They started the week on the upbeat, then turned lower, then higher, then lower again and finally came to rest at 930 - up only half a point for the week. At the height of trading, the exchange's high-speed ticker ran twelve minutes behind, but had it not been for this new, computerized equipment, the tape would...