Word: drumming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spin-off from Gillespie, but it offered not so much as a toot. No sax, no horn, no clarinet. Instead there was a clean, nearly transparent sound made by piano, vibraharp, bass and drum...
Surprised by the council's obstinacy, U.M.W. President Arnold Miller traveled home to the coal fields of West Virginia to drum up support for the agreement. He announced that he will seek no further basic concessions from the Bituminous Coal Operators Association -only revisions in language. Said Miller: "I'm not going back for another bite of the apple. All that's left is the core...
...Like Oskar in The Tin Drum?" we asked her. But she was not familiar with Oskar...
Wherever Brooklyn Congressman Hugh Carey, 55, campaigned in the New York gubernatorial race, he was pursued by strains of Happy Days Are Here Again -by a high school brass band, a black drum and bugle corps, a glockenspiel ensemble dressed up as Indians. Aside from the catchy tune and schmaltzy sentiment, the ditty had a further point: it was once Franklin Roosevelt's campaign song. After 16 years of Republican rule in the state, a Democratic candidate was finally putting back together the old Roosevelt coalition of labor, liberals and minorities. So successful was his political surgery that Carey...
...many people think that Ivy football is just an exciting joke, an opinion fostered by the weird games that seem to pop up on the tube every now and then. And television broadcasters are usually at a loss for words when they try to drum up interest in the encounters...