Word: drumbeat
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...shot labor racketeer, was testifying. "We had about 20 percent of Hollywood when we got in trouble. If we hadn't got loused up we'd of had 50 percent. I had Hollywood dancin' to my tune." Willie's compelling tune was extortion; the insistent drumbeat in the background was the threat of physical violence. Studio employees and motion-picture-machine operators joined his labor union-or else. Hollywood studio czars chipped in millions to stop the music -and keep their studios running. What finally "loused up" Willie was a big, quiet civil servant named Elmer...
More than 120 men will be the stars of tomorrow's "Drumbeat and Song" concert sponsored by the Radcliffe 70th Anniversary Fund at Symphony Hall...
...would be glad to be Harry Truman's vice-presidential candidate (TIME, Aug. 25). Said Forrestal: "I've never taken myself seriously as a political glamor character. Even with both ears to the ground, I've never heard the faintest suggestion of even a distant drumbeat...
...enemy the drumbeat cadence of the attack could mean only one thing. Now that the Gilberts had fallen, the Marshalls were next. The stern, long march to Tokyo had barely begun. But it had been started...
...exact science!" Furthermore, Kamiya has noted definite changes in the wave forms and amplitudes of his curves. This he takes to mean that Physarum has not just one rhythm but several rhythms acting together. In other words the life throb of the slime mold is not just a simple drumbeat; it is an orchestration...