Word: drum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clearly in the mean bit of folk wisdom around campus which assumes that SDSers are discontented with Harvard because they lack feminine companionship. This theory contains a grain of truth, but it fails to come to grips with the fact that SDSers march to the beat of a different drum... (This becomes clear, if nothing else, from observing these [SDS] girls' breast size...
...springtime Wednesday afternoons at Annapolis, the U.S. Naval Academy's 4,300 midshipmen, starched and polished, march smartly to the drum and bugle of dress parade. It is a traditional display of martial crispness for academy brass and visiting VIPs. But these Wednesdays, after the last salute is snapped, many a middie returns to the not-so-traditional company of Machiavelli, Malthus or Montesquieu-required reading in such brand-new majors as literature, economics and political science. The marriage of military discipline and academic freedom is uneasy at best, but Rear Admiral James F. Calvert, now in his second...
...xerographic office copiers. But IBM is licensed to use Xerox processes for computer equipment. The suit accused IBM of using trade secrets provided under that agreement to produce its new office copier. In IBM's process, an image of the original document is picked up by a photoconductive drum. A toner powder, mixed with developer fluid, cascades over the drum, which then transfers the image electrostatically onto the copying paper...
...president, agreed with many of the demands and suspended classes to permit broader participation in negotiations, but she refused to deal only with the radical demonstrators. She was also reluctant to call in the police. "I'm not about to give them a holocaust they can drum up student sympathy with," she said...
After wrestling with Oskar's stonecutting experiences in The Tin Drum, for example, Manheim finally gave up. "You've got to find a German-American stonecutter who can get the terms right in both languages," he wrote the publisher. The publisher did. Manheim made it through ex-Potash Miner Grass's scenes from Dog Years with the help of special dictionaries. But in translating Local Anaesthetic, Manheim had tremendous trouble with the highly technical language of dentistry used by Grass, who has made a study of the subject. "Many of the words," Manheim admits, "just weren...