Word: drum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...salute ushered in the sunrise across the eucalyptus-covered hills around Ethiopia's capital of Addis Ababa. In St. George Cathedral more than 100 stocking-footed priests of the Coptic Christian Church began their matins to the booming rhythms of a throbbing bass drum and the jangle of silver rattles. In the streets thousands of adoring subjects set up a howling cry of greeting for Emperor Haile Selassie, the Conquering Lion of Judah, Elect of God and 225th in a long line of Ethiopian emperors who traced their ancestry back to the Queen of Sheba herself. A moment later...
With this terse statement, Princeton officially ended athletic relations with Harvard some 31 years ago this Nov.11. The reasons for this break were not a stolen drum or an injured linesman but a feeling "of many Harvard men that Princeton plays football in a manner unbecoming a gentleman and cares more for athletic victories than clean sportsmanship." Whether or not this feeling was prompted by the Tigers beating the Crimson 36-0 and 34-0 in 1924 and 1925 is unknown; the fact is that the two institutions did not compete against one another in any sport until...
After the University band played through the dulcet strains of "Let Me Call You Sweetheart," Dartmouth almost pulled off the greatest deception since the invention of the forward pass. A speedy group raced from the stands and snared the world's biggest drum, which band managers had returned the night before from Chicago, where it had undergone extensive repairs, and started to run with it towards the goal line...
With their honor at stake, the band broke from a heart-shaped formation into a flying wedge. Instruments made effective cudgels, and the Dartmouth men were pushed away, as the drum was retrieved...
Individual stars of the entire show were the Harvard men guarding the drum, who combined quick work with the drumsticks and efficient body blocking with fast broken-field running towards the sidelines with their charge intact...