Word: drum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thurmond was anxious to drum the liberals out of the party, some liberals and moderates were equally eager for a purge of ultraconservatives. Senator Scott, who barely survived the Johnson landslide in his bid for reelection, insisted that "Southern scalawags" and the "hardcore radical right" be thrown out of the G.O.P. "The present party leadership," he said, "must be replaced -all of it." Some moderates were upset over reports that the G.O.P. had wound up the 1964 campaign with a $1,200,000 surplus instead of the usual deficit, suggested that the money was withheld to strengthen Goldwater...
...putting more into the economy, Wilson sent Board of Trade President Douglas Jay to Moscow and Peking to drum up new trade. Aviation Minister Roy Jenkins hurried to Paris for a critical reassessment of the $1 billion Anglo-French project to beat the U.S. into the air with a supersonic airliner, the Concorde. Then, when the new government had been in office barely a week, it was pushed by Rhodesia's Prime Minister Ian Smith into its first diplomatic crisis (see Rhodesia...
...Science, Space Research and Philosophy, who claimed the goings-on interfered with his space program to beat the U.S. and the Soviet Union to the moon. Already Nkoloso is training twelve Zambian astronauts, including a curvaceous 16-year-old girl, by spinning them around a tree in an oil drum and teaching them to walk on their hands, "the only way humans can walk on the moon...
...graceful figure with closely cropped head and a wellcut grey suit advances to the speaker who grasps his hand in reference fashion and cues the obedient crowd for noisy cheers. Meanwhile, a piano and a drum increase the noise level a couple of decibels and add the final touch to a scene straight from The Last Hurrah...
...single man stands like a birdwatcher, and scuffles the pepper and salt snow from a discarded, gray Westinghouse Electric cable drum. He cannot discover America by counting the chains of condemned freight-trains from thirty states . . . Across the river, ledges of suburban factories tan in the sulphur-yellow sun of the unforgivable landscape...