Word: play
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wonders if her husband will send her flowers (on no special occasion), shoos the children next door to play at the neighbor's house for a change, paints her face for her husband's return before she wrestles with dinner. Spotted through her day are blessed moments of relief or dark thoughts of escape...
...little living. The pressure of activity and participation in the model suburb of Lakewood, for example, can be harrowing. The town's recreation league boasts no boys' baseball teams (2,000 players), 36 men's softball teams, ten housewives' softball teams. In season, the leagues play 75 boys' and 30 men's basketball teams, 77 football teams, all coached by volunteers, while other activities range through drama, dance and charm classes, bowling, dog-training classes, "Slim 'n' Trim" groups, roller skating, photography, woodcraft, and lessons in how to ice a cake. Says...
...Bulgaria, Rumania, and even Yugoslavia and Poland, Radio Moscow guardedly began reporting "dirty rain" around Kiev. Making the best of a bad situation, Izvestia described how 17 "heroic collective farm workers" had shoveled four feet of dust off a hog-farrowing shed near Krasnodar, then stayed around to play midwife to the sows...
...Trestles. But London has another meaning for Africans than just a place to work and play. It is the city where Mazzini plotted the independence of a unified Italy, where Karl Marx labored through 34 years to create Communism, where Sun Yat-sen planned the death of the Manchu Empire and the birth of the Chinese Republic. Historically, London has always given asylum to political exiles and revolutionaries, and the Africans are no exceptions-even though much of their plotting is in effect against Britain itself, or at least against the British colonial rule of their countries...
...Jelly Roll Morton, Johnny Dodds. To listeners remembering old Okeh and Paramount recordings, the effect was sometimes eerily familiar: Frankfurt's Barrel House Jazzband, for instance, aped the disk of Dippermouth Blues with such studious care that they even mastered the ascending intonation of the famous cry. "Oh, play that thing." near the record's end. And a jazz singer named Inge Brandenburg, 31, belted out her numbers with a phrasing and intonation that made her a dead ringer for Billie Holiday...