Word: waving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Roseland, a staid, family waltzery near Broadway, banned La Pachanga because it feared for its floor. Freddy Alonso, an El Morocco bandleader, played pachangas but reported sadly that someone had knocked over a table while essaying the stomp. It is "just not El Morocco," according to one patron, to wave one's handkerchief while pachangaing...
...Wave of Honey. To judge from her portraits, she was handsome rather than beautiful and, from her letters, commonsensical rather than brilliant; she certainly had none of the literary sex appeal that marked her contemporaries, Madame Récamier and Madame de Staël. She was nevertheless remarkable for her courage and dogged devotion to her husband; as a patrician and a thoroughly unemancipated woman, she never felt released either from wifely duty or wifely affection simply because her husband was a confirmed philanderer. In fact, as Biographer Maurois tells it, in a somewhat simpering, grandfatherly style, Adrienne...
...moat outside dug holes in the ground with shovels for makeshift toilets. In Havana's huge Blanquita Theater, the militia used dogs to guard 5,000 men and women. The dogs panicked the prisoners, and the militia fired into the crowd, wounding two. After the initial wave of 30 executions in the invasion's first 48 hours, the regime stopped issuing bulletins-but did not stop killing. The reports are that it still goes on, and travelers from Pinar del Rio province say that for a time after the invasion, executions were quietly carried out there almost every...
Doctored News. There is not likely ever to be agreement. In the first wave of response to his speech, the President was widely criticized for merely restating an abiding press problem without offering any new solution. Since then, the press has made clear that it not only deplores Washington's incorrigible tendency to conceal (see cut), but questions Kennedy's right to criticize the press's equally incorrigible tendency to reveal...
...Lake Manyara, off in Tanganyika, an echoing gunshot stirs a huge, pink sea of flamingos into an undulating wave of flutter as they rise and settle once again. Down the corrugated road in a rumbling Land Rover come the white hunters, and once again the pink wings billow brightly in the sun. And then impatient stillness falls once more and muffles the lake...