Word: drumfuls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Acting President Choi Kyu Hah, 60, plunged into interminable rounds of talks with military leaders and key ministers, reportedly in search of a succession formula. The two main contenders for the presidency, former Premiers Kim Jong Pil, 53, and Chung II Kwon, 61, were believed to be trying to drum up support, but thus far strictly behind the scenes...
MARRIED. Michael Moriarty, 38, actor (Bang the Drum Slowly, Holocaust); and Anne Hamilton Martin, 35, a publicist and sometime actress with Moriarty's Potter's Field Theater Company; he for the second time, she for the first; in Manhattan...
...believe in having a year's supply of food." Jack Elkins, a nuclear-weapons physicist from Oak Ridge, Term., got so fired up at the June festival that he went home and invented a home oil refinery. It is about the size of a 55-gal. oil drum and, he says, can refine crude oil into gasoline and home heating oil at the rate of 12 gal. of each a day. The cost is slightly higher than retail: "This is not something you'll use to save money, but in an OPEC emergency it's ideal...
...wide red stripe across the prisoner's buttocks to define the target zone; then the two floggers, alternating strokes, began to whack his rump. After each blow, the whipper would dance back a few steps; turning with acrobatic grace, he would twirl his cane like a drum major's baton and rush forward to strike the next blow. The victim's body writhed in agony with each fall of the cane. He cried out: "Allah Akbar!" (God is great). After four strokes, the young convict screamed out for the doctor. After six, he was given...
...churchgoing, baptized Christian, I object to Fundamentalist Jerry Falwell's religion-in-politics campaign [Oct. 1]. He is using the Cross of Christ to pound a political drum. Jesus came to seek and save all people. He speaks to all, regardless of political persuasion. Falwell's view that God loves America above all nations is simply blasphemous...