Word: drumming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...duplicated on a special tape that is fed into the machine. The brain rejects all extraneous information carried on the exchange tape, such as news bulletins, picks the latest quoted price for each stock, multiplies it by the number of shares outstanding (a figure previously fed into its memory drum...
...DISTANT DRUM (500 pp.)-Charles Bracelen Flood - Houghton Mlfflin...
...convey the mellowness of time passing, Author Flood goes in relentlessly for air-cooled, clip-fed flashbacks. He has a hostly urge to escort the reader to the best schools, streets, shops and restaurants, like a kind of fictional branch of the A.A.A. Persistently understated and overbred, A Distant Drum belongs to the Forest Lawn of American writing where the cosmetician's art skillfully mimics but cannot summon life...
Some people, Dr. Lanphier believes, should not even think of becoming skindivers : those with heart trouble or breathing difficulties, the obese, those who cannot easily equalize the pressure in their middle ear and sinuses, those with a perforated ear drum, and the reckless. Also, "men over 40 deserve special scrutiny." But the Navy expert's outlook, for all his warnings, is far from negative. Many physicians, notes 34-year-old Dr. Lanphier, a skindiver himself, regard diving as "a sport worthy of their own leisure moments. A more fascinating activity or a better means of keeping in condition...
...lived it up: down the corridors of the hospital he loped (as best he could) with his toy cowboy gun hanging from his hip. Back home at Blair House, there were cowboy and Indian suits, a drum, a road-scraper, a Mickey Mouse hat, a bicycle, lollipops, a toy tractor from the President. As if proof were needed that children are the same the world over, he presided at a children's party at the Saudi Arabian embassy and started a typical childlike ruckus of his own. Photographers asked him. to kiss a little American girl, Mary Harris, granddaughter...