Word: drum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...else fails, Johnson is counting on the realities of the marketplace to force a rollback in steel prices. After all, higher prices figure to make it even more difficult for the industry to compete with low-priced foreign steel. Nor will they help steelmakers in their efforts to drum up business during the general economic slowdown expected during the next six months. "We hope," said Johnson, "the competitive factors will, as they have in the past, bring about a readjustment on the action that the Bethlehem company has taken...
What memories she has: jumping into a mass of alligators, wrestling one down with a flourish while the crowd cheered. Ah, yes. When a girl's been a hit in show biz, it's hard to settle for a ho-hum-drum routine. That's why Katherine Reid, 66, who in the 1920s made quite a name for herself on stage and screen, has started up that long comeback trail. Billing herself the "world's only lady gator wrestler," she sees no ordinary run-of-the-reptile return. She wants to gild her scaly...
News programs are devoted interminably to coverage of Cabinet meetings or scenes of officials dedicating schools and swimming pools. The International Herald Tribune described them as "the special kind of news in which the United States is alternately in the hands of race rioters or drum majorettes, where England is a country of eccentric peers, a sinking currency and constant tea breaks, and where France is a happy, if intensely boring, land whose only worry is that some damned foreigners might win a soccer match...
Ultimate Purge. Newsmen have never been allowed to put penetrating questions to government officials. Instead, the routine suggestion is: "Please explain your program to the viewers." Where Gaullist drum beating is given plenty of time, opposition leaders are permitted to appear only fleetingly, and usually in a background still photo while a droning announcer reads their carefully edited words. On his return to France recently, Georges Bidault said at a press conference: "I ask you to vote against the Communists and against the Gaullists." Later, French radio quoted him as saying only: "I ask you to vote against Communism...
...Earth Opera's music is the peculiar relationship between the organ rhythms and the drum rhythms. The organ is used by them as a semi-melodic instrument while the drums are straight, but complex, percussion. This interaction between two staggered tempos distinctly creates a third master tempo...