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  • Jiving around, one of the other guys said "green onions" for emphasis.

    A Son of Memphis Salutes His City Marc Myers 2011

  • This spring I heard P&J's Sal Sunseri (pictured at right) speak at the "Shucking and Jiving with Oysters" panel during "The Tennessee Williams Festival Celebrates the Best of the Bivalves," and he was an enthusiastic evangelist for the quality of fresh Gulf Coast oysters.

    Karen Dalton-Beninato: The End of an Era: Gulf Coast Oyster Supplier Shuts Down 2010

  • This spring I heard P&J's Sal Sunseri (pictured at right) speak at the "Shucking and Jiving with Oysters" panel during "The Tennessee Williams Festival Celebrates the Best of the Bivalves," and he was an enthusiastic evangelist for the quality of fresh Gulf Coast oysters.

    Karen Dalton-Beninato: The End of an Era: Gulf Coast Oyster Supplier Shuts Down 2010

  • Shuckin and Jiving is how whiteness loves its coloreds an I sho nuff aims ta please.

    Your Brain On Whiteness Renee 2009

  • Shuckin and Jiving is how whiteness loves its coloreds an I sho nuff aims ta please.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Renee 2009

  • Jiving was 'the' fashionable dance style of my student years, half a century ago.

    [weekend poll] mid-poll report 2009

  • Everyone knows that there's no racist connotation to "Shucking and Jiving" whatsoever, so call off your PC Gestapo!

    "Fake interviews." Ann Althouse 2008

  • Right: Jiving on the seafront wearing that ‘ginghamy thing’ that I thought was so cool.

    In the Frame Helen Mirren 2007

  • Right: Jiving on the seafront wearing that ‘ginghamy thing’ that I thought was so cool.

    In the Frame Helen Mirren 2007

  • This complex of camps was also known as Dora, and the Jiving and working conditions that prevailed there, even as early as 1943, were catastrophic.

    Commandant of Auschwitz Hoess, Rudolf 1951

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