Word: drum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Squash coach Dave Fish will assemble a band of walking wounded for the men's squash team's season opener today at Hemenway (3 p.m.), and somehow it's only fitting that his hobbling fife-and-drum corps will do battle with the fitness-conscious servicemen from Navy...
...quickly points out. "You've really got a polish on popular culture that we have not. When I was watching the Thanksgiving parade on television. I decided we couldn't do that kind of thing in Britain, we don't have the flair. We have a few drum majorettes, but they look very very amateurish and unsophisticated compared with yours...
...Song Remains the Same (Chittenden Hall): 24 versions of "Stairway to Heaven," and one long drum solo. Do you really want to sit through that? We don't. In fact, we don't want to sit through a movie at all this weekend. Now how 'bout a beer...
Saturday belongs to the Harvard and Yale marching bands. After a full morning of rehearsals, the two groups will, in the words of Yale drum major David Polinsky, "shinny on over to the Bowl, leaving at least a half an hour for flogging through all that teeming humanity, with pit stops to play for alumni, and a one o'clock curtain...
...operate around the clock, seven days a week, all year long. Says President Teruhiko Yamazaki: "The accuracy is better than humans can do, and the machines never have a blue Monday." To keep the equipment as precisely tuned as possible, workers help re-sharpen each machining center's drum of accessory tools every six or seven days. Such tasks, and programming the factory's computers, are all that the plant now requires of employees. There are normally ten to twelve workers in the plant during the day, but just one watchman for the night shift. Employees are pleased...