Word: bongos
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After the meeting everyone adjourned to march around Massachusetts Hall. It was exciting. A group of people were playing bongo drums and chanting slogans--"Quang Tri! An Loc! Do the same to Derek Bok!" was the most memorable slogan to come out on the strike--and the occupiers were shouting speeches from the windows. "This is really very exciting," I said to one of the people marching in front of me. "Yes," he agreed, "but I'd still rather be making it with someone." I didn't fully appreciate that exchange 'til I had more of a standard of comparison...
...indulge in his favorite subject, foreign relations, and perhaps also to divert his attention-and the public's-from the roiling problems of Watergate. Indeed, almost any foreign statesman passing through town seemed welcome in the Oval Office. No sooner had Tanaka departed than President Albert-Bernard Bongo of the tiny West African republic of Gabon arrived for a chat with Nixon...
...irritated the President with his criticism of U.S. bombing of North Viet Nam, was snubbed when he sought an invitation to Washington two months ago. Last week he might have been an old friend, so warm was the greeting. Tanaka's visit had been planned preWatergate, but Bongo had been scheduled only to receive an honorary degree from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh when the glad hand reached out from the White House...
...Cubans were exuberant, to the particular discomfort of the Canadian team. Billeted next door to the Cubans, the Canadians complained that they were kept awake half the night by the sound of bongo drums. "Someone told us Fidel Castro put through a phone call of congratulations," explained one Canadian athlete, "and the Cubans went wild...
...producer or playwright would think: Who is this cocky girl mucking up our masterpiece that we've been working on for years?" But 18 months, two companies, and more than 100 roles later, she finally arrived on the West End, playing a show-stopping cameo in Expresso Bongo with Paul Scofield...