Word: roo
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...taken over the joints. At last count, Japan has some 3,000 union-registered jazz musicians noodling away at the out sounds of such current favorites as Sonny Rollins, Art Blakey and Miles Davis. They have even picked up the lingo, and added soy sauce. Though cool (pronounced "koo-roo") and beat ("beato") survived the Pacific crossing almost intact, the U.S. term funky (meaning earthy) is disparaging Japanese for beatnik. Shinu (literally: I die) means being overwhelmed, and if the sounds are too far out, they are ikareteru (meaning out of order...
...qualifying fee to get on the ballot. Then he sat back and waited for election day. With four opponents-two of them veteran politicians-running for the post (the incumbent is retiring), it looked as if "fun" was all that Johnson was going to get for his $roo...