Word: drummed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...melancholy chant, full of the flavor of steaming rivers and hot forests, floated from the choir as the priest began the Mass. Suddenly, like the rumbling of a far-off storm, a drum joined in. "Ezè sè kènzapa," they prayed together. "We implore you, Our Lord...
...site now occupied by Lehman Hall, the first Puritan meeting house was little more than a log cabin. Cambridge itself had been settled only two years before as a "fortified place." Since the meeting house had no bell, the congregation gathered to the roll of a drum. The sober Elders later were able to buy a bell, but their jubilation was short-lived. For Thomas Hooker, their pastor, migrated to Connecticut, leaving only eleven families behind in Cambridge...
...freshmen and sophomores competed in the art of seat-slamming. Until the clatter had subsided, hymns were almost inaudible. Noisy students were not as riotous as their contemporaries from the town, however. One Sunday afternoon in 1812, a discharged company of Cambridge militia marched triumphantly into the church, "with drum and fife affronting the Sabbath." With measured tramp and fife trilling, they filed into the front galleries, but the congregation studiously ignored them; the long prayer droned on without a break...
...celebration began almost with the first returns. Though the Democratic Party is only three months old, it stole the thunder, many of the members and thousands of the votes of the recently dominant Liberal Party. Each time a Democrat's election was clinched, party workers pounded a lacquered drum and the crowd shouted, "Banzai! Banzai! Banzai!" By morning they had banzaied themselves hoarse...
...curtain raiser for this year's Drumbeats and Song, the Harvard Band swung through a selection of spirited melodies, well matching the energetic performance of Snake Oil. To attempt a criticism of last night's concert would be like kicking holes in the Band's new drum. Each tune was delivered with that punch which stirs a chorus of accompanying shoe taps...