Word: drums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...They are buildings that will still be here when the world ends, inhuman enough for the J. Edgar Hoover Center in Washington to look like a Taos adobe beside them. With that, on a cold day when the windows are bubbled shut tight, and the army convoys from Camp Drum are holding up traffic way ahead at Troy, and the Savarin coffee tastes like boiled muzak, and you don't leave the highway once for eight hours...it feels good to get home...
Federal officials have been told that Hoffa's murderers stuffed his body into a 55-gallon oil drum, carted it across the country and buried it in a dump in Jersey City. This week FBI bulldozers will begin to turn over the trash and garbage in an effort to find the grave of Jimmy Hoffa...
Gold performs the vocals and plays the organ, piano, percussion, drum, guitars and bass parts...
Many New Yorkers felt let down and fed up. "I'm tired of being diddled," sputtered Manhattan's Democratic Congressman Edward Koch; "Ford has bled us to death." New York State University students held a rally at the U.S. Capitol to drum up support for aid to the city; New York Congresswomen Bella Abzug, Shirley Chisholm and Elizabeth Holtzman lent their voices to the cause. The New York Daily News, a longtime supporter of fiscal conservatism, berated Ford for "tantalizing us in a cold-blooded game of cat and mouse." Said a top G.O.P. congressional leader: "Ford...
...while Harvard's program claims as alumni a variety of historical figures ranging from Moses to Shakespeare, in a routine perceived more as humorous jest than pretension, at least by those from Harvard and Yale. Still, both bands find opportunities for genial sparring. Yale's marchers form a huge drum and carry a fifteen-foot-long drumstick across the field while bemoaning the pitiful size of much of Harvard's equipment. And the Harvard band takes advantage of twentieth century technology by flying a plane over the stadium with a banner reading, "Yale Band Eats Moose...