Word: wagged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...where the sport of kings has jockeys in government colors riding state-owned nags. Bettors watch the morning line more closely than the party line, have made big sellers of such magazines as Hungary's Pesti Turf. So high is the gambling fever in Yugoslavia that one party wag has remarked that the state flag ought to have "two crossed croupier rakes on a green baize background...
...Haydn was more than a musical wag. Sharing the spirit of the Sturm und Drang poets of the time (among them Schiller and Lessing), he made his instruments weep and rant as well. The supple, rhapsodic lyricism of the slow movement of Symphony No. 44 is far removed from the aloof, balanced expressiveness sought by most composers of his time; the demonic orchestral outbursts and sudden silences in the first movement of No. 80 point ahead to the struggle-locked manner of the later Beethoven. To initiate the finale of the Sinfonia Concertante, four solo instruments conduct a nonverbal argument...
...switched back to old-fashioned belly-dancing. Reasons range from the competing tourist attraction of the hippie haunts in Haight-Ashbury to the high cost of drinks (usually $1.50) at the topless bars. But the chief cause may be simple overexposure. "When you've seen two," said a wag, "you've seen them all." Ray Goman of San Francisco's Gay 60's, who expects the fad to fade out by next summer, notes that his male employees trip over topless dancers every night of the week without batting an eye, but still swivel their heads...
...lord's remove did not go unobserved, and soon the tongues of other lords and ladies began to wag. By and by, melancholy Marion sued for divorce on grounds of adultery. The lord offered no resistance, though the suit cost him custody of his three sons, for he had already resolved to marry the mother of his fourth son as soon as possible...
...lawyer-lieutenant (Michael Lipton) chosen to defend Hamp is aloof, yet earnest, and thoroughly determined to help him. But Hamp (Robert Salvio) is hard to help precisely because he is a simple soul of truth, a pebble of innocence without a tongue-wag of self-protective deviousness in his nature. He ran away, he tells his lawyer and the court, because one day the mud-and-blood bath of battle got to be too much for him. He doesn't have the foggiest idea if he ever intended coming back to his outfit. All he knows is that...