Word: brig
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Whitsun Tuesday in 1865, the Sunday-school children of an English mill-town mission named Horbury Brig, in Devonshire, were scheduled to march to church to join the children of the nearby parish in worship. As the mission's curate later told it, "Mr. Fred Knowles [a church warden] came to me at the Vicarage and asked what they were to sing on the long walk. We discussed one thing and then another and I said I would write a processional. 'You must be sharp about it,' said Mr. Knowles, 'for this is Saturday and there...
...possible use as witnesses in the court-martial. Of these, two promptly went over the hill. Of the five not at Parris Island, one is in the hospital, one is AWOL, one has deserted, one is being held for commanding officer's punishment, one is in the brig...
This week Sergeant McKeon was in the Parris Island brig and Marine Commandant Randolph Pate was back in Washington after conducting a personal on-the-scene inquiry. Congressmen cried for an investigation into the basic training methods that have made the U.S. Marine Corps an elite. And. attended by Marine honor guards, off to home cities went flag-draped coffins bearing the bodies of the six men that Drill Instructor McKeon's zeal and stupidity had left in the water of Ribbon Creek...
...drummer starts setting up complex rhythm often based on seven beats, over which the melody instrument improvises an increasingly complicated part, while the drone keeps up a fill-in. The music is quite difficult to understand at first, partially due to the strange scales it uses. But repeated hearings brig out the intricate beauty of its very advanced art. It is worthwhile buying the "de luxe" edition, as the explanatory notes by Yehudi Menuhin are very helpful. (Angel...
...Jenkins' Ear, a name popularly applied to the war between England and Spain, 1739-43. The incident that contributed to its outbreak: Captain Robert Jenkins' English brig Rebecca was plundered by Spaniards, one of whom cut off the captain's ear and handed it back, "bidding him carry it back to His Majesty, King George...