Word: beating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Labor Prime Minister James Callaghan, it is "a society based on cooperation instead of competition." France's Mitterrand calls it "an élan, a collective movement ?the communion of men in search of justice." In a more colloquial vein, a current hit song in Jamaica, pulsating with reggae beat, teaches: "Socialism is love for your brother/ Socialism is linking hearts and hands/ Love and togetherness?that's what it means...
...Candidates from the centrist parties backing President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing have already pledged to bow out in the second round in favor of Gaullist candidates who get more votes in the first round; the Gaullists have promised to do the same for centrist candidates who beat them...
...ones or injects old plays with songs and dances. The most popular recent marketing device is to turn originally all-white musicals into all-black musicals. In the current instance the show is based on Kismet, and the locale has been changed from Baghdad to Africa, though the basic beat and mood of the musical are Caribbean. That is not too surprising, since Director-Choreogra-pher-Costumer Geoffrey Holder was born in Trinidad...
Providence beat top-ranked B.U., 5-1, in the semifinal round Friday night, and lost to B.C. in the finals Saturday to finish as runner-up. B.U. won its consolation game against Brown to finish third in the ECAC Division...
...temple, the growing beat and deafening volume of the drums and kartals, the sweet incense and the glistening altar seem to inspire the devotees into uncontrolled gesticulations. They are thrown into a frenzy of twirling orange robes, red ribbons, flashing kartals and airborne sweat. The entire congregation leaps on the floor, shouting the mantra, "Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare..." At the end, they fall to their knees...