Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cause of the uproar was a seismic new dance called La Pachanga-Caribbean slang for "wild party." Historians are able to date the dance with some exactness. In December 1959, a young Cuban musician named Eduardo Davidson wrote a song called La Pachanga. Havana's charanga groups (drums, flute, piano and strings) picked it up, and by the time the noise drifted north a year later, it was a dance whose gyrations suggested a meringue blended with the samba, Charleston and Bunny Hop. Early this year Bandleader José Fajado brought La Pachanga to the Palladium and Dancing Instructor...
...extricate himself from them. The desire to save face is an understandable human attribute, but that does not make it commendable. Too often, the rigidity of the President's posture has hindered efforts to solve problems facing the College. Such was the case in the 1958 Memorial Church uproar, and again in the incomparably less important diploma business...
...uproar mounted, President Kennedy called the Pentagon to see what all the shouting was about. Connecticut's Democratic Congressman Frank Kowalski, a West Pointer ('30) and retired colonel, demanded an investigation of West Pointer Walker (class of '31). Said he: Walker has done nothing wrong, he should be vindicated. If not, he should be given the works." And the Army decided to put General Ted Walker on the shelf until it could find out if his political views outbalanced his fighting talent...
Until Governor Volpe started the uproar about highways, it seemed as though Cambridge had reconciled itself to marriage with the Inner Belt route--at an indefinite future time. With the furor, this reconciliation disintegrated. Where there had been at best a strained unity on the choice of one route in particular, now the champions of other routes and of no route at all are back in the battle...
...varsity was a different team after the dismal opening, scoring with a finesse that kept the spirited crowd in an uproar. Bill Beckett's goal, which opened the Harvard scoring at 5:25, drew some of the loudest cheers. Taking a face-off pass from Jim Dwinell 30 feet in front of van Gerbig, Beckett carefully sighted on the few inches of net visible between the goalie and the left post, then hit his mark...