Word: drumming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Light That Failed. The heaviest fighting took place last week at the village of Bo Tuc, 82 miles northwest of Saigon in Tayninh province, six miles from the Cambodian border. Promptly at midnight, at the sound of five thumps on a bamboo drum, hundreds of Viet Cong guerrillas stormed from the tall grass, quickly overran two outposts manned by four civil guards. Their main objective was a large defense post in the center of the village occupied by 78 guards and militiamen...
...Drum & Sail. The heaviest part of OSO is a nine-sided drum containing batteries, radio equipment and position-control apparatus (see diagram). Mounted on a shaft running through the center of the drum is a semicircular "sail" covered on one side with solar cells to make electric power out of sunlight. While OSO was getting its final push from the launching rocket's third stage, both drum and sail were spinning rapidly. After it was fully in orbit, three arms carrying spherical tanks of high-pressure nitrogen swung outward, and small nitrogen jets reduced the spin to a steady...
...cancer sticks may discover just how sick the joke really is. A committee of nine doctors appointed by Britain's Royal College of Physicians has published a report on smoking and cancer which summarizes evidence collected in Britain by scientists and statisticians over the last decade; with no particular drum to beat and very little moralizing, the report makes some very scary points...
...tall, spare frame over the keyboard, as he did last week in Manhattan's Birdland, fixing his eyes on his belt buckle and stroking the keys with disembodied-looking fingers, he seems to be responding to promptings from far beyond the bandstand on which a bass and a drum plunk and sizzle quietly. The music itself often has a trancelike quality. A listener can find himself hypnotized by an Evans treatment of a familiar tune-My Man's Gone Now or My Foolish Heart-because it contains no qualifications or showy embellishments. It is, as nearly as Evans...
Intellectually, such comedy is as plain as beans on a plate. Physically, it is as intricate as tumbling, and few girls have the muscles or the timing for the job. Onetime Drum Majorette Reynolds has both. She makes falling off a horse look as easy as falling off a horse...