Word: drumfuls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...authors concede that children who stay in foster care a long time have difficulty coping with a double set of parents. For this reason, some experts have recommended that foster parents be allowed to bar visits by real parents. But, warn Fanshel and Shinn, a "cavalier readiness" to drum natural parents out of a youngster's life is both unfair to them and dangerous to the child...
...devotees fly to the altar clutching their instruments, the congregation swelling behind them. A devotee with a mrdrunga or drum, sets a slow simple tempo and begins to chant in Sanskrit. The congregation answers the leader's prelude and sways with the slow tempo. The devotees dance closest to the altar, beating mrdrungas or kartals, small high-pitched cymbals, and leading the rest of the congregation in the singing and dancing...
...voice softens, as if remembering something rare and lovely: "Oh, yes, I knew I had a winner. Of all the fighters I've ever known, only he could make the heavy bag sing when he hit it. I used to hear him make it snap like a snare drum every time I came up the stairs...
...customer, for starters"--and an amazing chain reaction begins. By the time the dust settles, the proliferating puns have assembled themselves into a SHOW, and forthwith commence forming a kickline. Someone pulls out a flute. Someone else pulls out an oboe. Someone else pulls out a drum set. OF THEIR OWN VOLITION, as if they had lives of their own, the puns arrange themselves into songs, into dances. Poppa Cork, the aging curator of the Hasty Pudding building, comes downstairs to see what's the matter...
Despite Carter's best efforts, Sadat left the U.S. without agreeing to schedule resumption of the bilateral political talks. On the way back home, Sadat was stopping off to drum up support in England, West Germany, Italy, Austria, Rumania and France. The next diplomatic move will be a series of shuttle flights between Cairo and Jerusalem, with Assistant Secretary of State Alfred ("Roy") Atherton Jr. as chief shuttler. "I think Sadat left in an upbeat mood," said a top Carter assistant. That mood lasted at least through Sadat's arrival in Austria, where he met with Israeli Opposition...