Word: drumheads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Delhi were members of a unique organization-the International Commission of Jurists. Born in 1952 out of revulsion at the drumhead trials then going on in Communist East Germany, and supported by 20,000 lawyers throughout the world, the jurists' commission is tied to no national government, is so thoroughly self-financed that the delegates to last week's congress had to dig into their own pockets to get up the air fare to New Delhi. Thanks to its freedom from official pressures, the commission does not have to worry about diplomatic niceties. No lawyers from Spain, Portugal...
...religion than politics, for which he has little feel. The worst example of this nearsightedness on politics arises in contrasting Handlin on Smith and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Everything Smith did that was a trifle unsavory but placated the machine is excused as "playing the game," and this includes a drumhead impeachment of an anti-Tammany governor. But when Roosevelt set out to win delegates in the South and West, and hedged on Prohibition, Handlin sides with Smith...
...campaign of counterterror launched by the northern Sudanese put the rest to flight. Some Negro rebels cast off their uniforms and returned to tribal life; others went on pillaging villages. Thousands of tribesmen fled with their families to the Belgian Congo and Uganda. District commissioners tried captured rebels in drumhead courts, ordered 168 executed by firing squads...
...sound in the air, and growing louder, is made by a musical instrument most young hipsters have never seen. Take a vellum drumhead with a fretted neck attached, string it with four or five strings, and pluck. Such an instrument worked for U.S. Negroes in the days of slavery, and its name may be derived from bandore or pandura (a lutelike musical device of North Africa). It is called the banjo...
...take care of that drum," Novick said. So traveling with the Band will be a number of drum-guards and a specially padded truck to ward off any possible damage. Meanwhile, the Band members are on the lookout for a cow with enough skin to replace the present drumhead...