Word: drumbeat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Other nations were watching closely. On Japanese television, astronomers and space specialists took turns filling the airwaves with learned commentary on Voyager's progress. In Britain, television stations broadcast a drumbeat of bulletins on the mission. London's Sunday Telegraph hailed the achievement as "the most spectacular piece of space exploration since men stepped foot on the moon...
...reached deep into history to adopt analogies for the current struggle with Iran. Government pronouncements constantly refer to the Iranians as "racist Persians." The victory of the Arabs over the Persians at Qadasiya in the 7th century is trumpeted at every turn. Radio and television keep up a drumbeat of patriotic poems set to martial music. The propaganda has had some impact. Many Baghdadis feel that their country is not only waging a war against a traditional enemy that gained control of the Shatt al Arab waterway by exploiting Iraqi weakness, but spearheading a patriotic, nationalist cause for the entire...
...Hitler, with its pounding Wagner and Beethoven, acknowledges Oskar's drum. It beats in time to the modern German effort to recreate Hegel's sense of history, Goethe's sense of self, Nietzche's sense of strength and Gunter Grass' cheeky sense of post-modern myth--the eerie drumbeat of barbarism, mysticism, and boredom...