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Word: drumming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite some grumbling from Republican rebels (like Oklahoma's Taft-minded Senator Ed Moore), Dewey's Midwest strength looked pretty solid. Then in Kansas City he heard the beat of an ominous drum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Calculated Risk | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

...wallop their four-foot-high Lambegs with cane whips 30 inches long. The noise, they say, is like that an elephant makes-but an elephant cannot make it staccato. A Lambeg drummer isn't doing anything at all until his wrists begin to bleed from smacking against the drum; when they see that Orange blood, the crowd, thinking of the Battle, always cheers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN IRELAND: And Quiet Flows the Boyne | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

...straw-hat circuit, Henry is worth every C-note of it. Horton gives a carefully turned performance as one of the most redoubtable rakes that ever jumped a garden wall. "I do not fall into the bass drum," he admits, "nor do I go up with the curtain. But everything else, I do." He simpers like a ninny, gives masterly double and triple takes (and even a few one-and-a-half takes, a Horton refinement). He waggles his square head in an idiotic semaphore of self-satisfaction, leers with lips that fit together like two nicked razor blades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Edward & Henry | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

Best anti-lamprey measure would be to drum up commercial demand. Lampreys were once a popular delicacy: Henry I of England is reputed to have died from a surfeit of them. Dr. Van Oosten is checking a rumor that Italians in Bessemer, Pa. are lamprey enthusiasts. If a market can be found, enterprising Great Lakes fishermen will gladly exterminate the lampreys free of charge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Deadly Kiss | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

Last week Short Laig got his wish. The independent Foreman's Association of America, which had struck the Ford Motor Co. in the confident belief it could close it drum-tight, was getting the worst thrashing in its six-year career. And it was being given by Short Laig and his C.I.O. brethren. The C.I.O.-U.A.W. workers had walked right past the picket lines of the foremen, some of whom were elderly, prosperous-looking men in decorous blue serge suits. Even their signs had a decorous, plaintive ring: "What Has Happened to Human Relations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Rout at the Rouge | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

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