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Underground culture

  • GangThe word gang derives from the past participle of Old English meaning to go or move. It is cognate with Old Norse meaning a journey or expedition.
  • Disc jockeyThe phrase disc jockey first appeared in print within the pages of Variety magazine during 1941. Radio gossip columnist Walter Winchell coined the term back…
  • Soviet dissidentsIn August 1969, the Initiating Group for Defense of Civil Rights in the USSR sent a formal appeal to the United Nations Committee on Human Rights.