Word: yo
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...King of Rock and Roll Jeff Thomas-Crew 87. You're All I Need to Get By Aretha Franklin 88. Sweet Hitch-hiker Credence Clearwater Revival 89. George Jackson Bob Dylan 90. Put Your Hand in the Hand Anne Murray-Ocean 91. Behind Blues Eyes Who 92. Yo Yo Osmonds 93. Imagine John Lennon 94. Absolutely Right Five Man Electrical Band 95. Me and Bobby McGee Janis Joplin 96. First I Look at the Purse J. Geils Band 97. Rings Cymarron 98. When You're Hot, You're Hot Jerry Reed 99. I'm Leavin' Elvis Presley
When he was not quite 19, before he first left Spain for Paris, Picasso wrote on a self-portrait "Yo el Rey"-the King. This motif runs through his art and life. To think that Picasso has ever been embarrassed by the homages paid him would be naive. Though prone to fits of self-doubt, he is the most naturally egotistic artist since Benvenuto Cellini, a standing refutation of the cozy untruth that geniuses are rather humble at heart. Significantly, he read Nietzsche when he was young, and there is an exhortation in Zarathustra that could well serve...
Died. Donald F. Duncan, 78, popularizer of Yo-Yos and parking meters; of a stroke; in Los Angeles. When he first saw Filipino immigrants playing with a crude toy in the late 1920s, Duncan was not impressed: "It looked like nothing, like a potato on a string." So he devised a slip string that let the wooden "potato" spin, registered the name Yo-Yo and embarked on a high-power promotion campaign. Youngsters looped the loop to the tune of up to $7,000,000 annually in sales for Duncan. Although he made another fortune by manufacturing parking meters, Duncan...
...Yale Daily News had the right string but the wrong yo-yo Thursday night...
Undeterred by an unseasonal dusting of snow, Emperor Hirohito and several other members of the imperial family trooped into their private box last week as the strains of Kimi-ga-yo, Japan's national anthem, wafted over the Senri Hills near Osaka. While multicolored flags and paper cranes swirled about them in the brisk breezes, cannons boomed a five-gun salute and a 100-piece orchestra blared Fanfare of the 21st Century, a piece specially written by composer Masaru Sato. Then two giant robots clanked into Festival Plaza, disgorging 110 members of a children's band who launched...