Word: whoopings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senate took up consideration of Johnson's $1.1 billion bill for aid to Appalachia. The Senate passed much the same bill last year, by a 45-to-13 vote, but time ran out before the House got around to it. This year both branches are expected to whoop it through without much dissent...
...church has always proved most relevant to the world when she didn't give a whoop whether she was temporally relevant or not. All these efforts to accommodate the church to time, and ignore eternity, lose both time and eternity...
...worst thing that has happened to Hanley is something that he could not have foreseen-the opening of Murray Schisgal's therapeutically hilarious Luv. Sorry-I-was-ever-born plays now sound like hollow parodies rather than dour profundities; since Luv raised its satirical whoop, playgoers are bound to lessen their self-commiserating indulgence of misery. More than ever a playwright who intends to woo his audience with some tale of woe will have to do it out of an intensely felt, intensively rendered personal experience...
November is Country Music Month. Not exactly heart-pounding news-except in Nashville, Tenn., where it is cause for an annual whoop-'n'-holler hoedown called the Country Music Festival. Hundreds of back-hill singers and strummers, sporting mail-order toupees and $300 hand-tooled boots, turn out for the event, and aspiring singers corner recording producers in elevators for impromptu auditions...
...Business. The celebrants at the 13th annual festival had a lot to whoop about. Country and Western music, known in the trade as C & W, has never been more widely popular. Beginning with World War II, when every barracks and afterdeck resounded with homespun hits like Wabash Cannonball and Great Speckled Bird, C & W has spread with the rural populations to the industrial centers of the North and beyond. Today C&W is a bristling $100 million-a-year industry with a network of more than 2,000 radio stations from Massachusetts to California airing country tunes. Nashville, with...