Word: drum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drum begins to roll...
...Nagai, a plump geisha, was landscaping her elaborate hairdo in preparation for the evening's entertainment. Heiji Tomioka, sake merchant, and his son were filling bottles and stone jugs for delivery to the crowded inns. In a warehouse by the docks, Kazuyoshi Kitamura was pouring gasoline from a drum into a five-gallon can. Yoshio Suzuki lounged about, watching Kazuyoshi. Yoshio, a hulking youth, as slow-witted as Lennie in John Steinbeck's Of Mice & Men, had an unlit cigarette in his mouth; he pointed to it and glanced a question at Kazuyoshi. "This gasoline...
...wear red coats and a director who wears a white one. This band lines up, runs off formations, and plays "Wintergreen"; what makes it exceptional is that it manages to do all this without the benefit of instruments other than a sextet of raucous voices and a pocket-sized drum...
Other fund-raising schemes include sales of Radcliffe pennants, beanies, and recordings from the forthcoming "Drum-beats and Song," President Martha McCabe explained...
...Master Toymaker Jiro Aidawa had promised to make them something free of charge. Last week he displayed his handiwork to the delighted youngsters. It was an animal band. A toy monkey waved a baton, a bear scraped on a fiddle, a giraffe shook a tambourine, an elephant pounded a drum. The tune they would play for Nehru's ear was strictly made in the U.S.A. It was Oh! Susanna...