Word: yo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Yo-Yo. Benny Profane, a schlemiel (the Yiddish word for chronic bumbler), is the novel's antihero. Shouts of triumph or yelps of protest are not for schlemiels; Benny's conversation is limited to "What?" and "Wha." The alligators come into it when he arrives in New York after a Navy hitch-the liberty scenes in Norfolk are done with loving verity-and needs a job. So he gets one shooting alligators for the city. This keeps him in beer, and more he does not need. He sleeps in the bathtub of a West Side apartment belonging...
...hypnotize disnation, I can shake de earth's foundation wid de Maple Leaf Rag! Oh go 'way, man, just hold yo' breath a minnit, For there's not a stunt that's in it, wid de Maple Leaf...
...week that left even Wall Street professionals bemused and confused, the stock market bobbed down, up, down like a Yo-Yo-and to as little apparent purpose. When the hectic action ended, the Dow-Jones industrial index stood nearly six points above its level at the beginning of the week-but more than 50 points below its level in mid-March...
Follow That Dream (United Artists). "Ennabody evah tell yew yo're hayand-some?" drawls a slinky Southern belle as she takes after Elvis Presley "like he come with green coupons." Elvis thoughtfully replies: "Only girls." The girls may or may not be right, but for one reason or another people pay good money to see Elvis Presley pictures. In this one, which is slightly better than most, Elvis plays a Georgia redneck who stakes out a homestead on state land in Florida. He is weak in the head but strong in the arm. When the state highway department tries...
Over the main entrance of the red brick bullring, on the western edge of Lima, hung a sign: "Jesús dijo: yo soy el camino y la verdad y la vida" (Jesus said: I am the way and the truth and the light). Within the ring, 12,000 Peruvians chewed on anticuchos (chunks of grilled beef heart) or sipped chicha (a beer made of corn). There was a hymn, a collection; then a Peruvian missionary announced that they would hear from "the man known all the world over as the Human Bible." In this setting, Baptist Preacher Billy Graham...