Word: fife
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Several fife and drum corps and a high school marching band later, L. Scott Harshbarger '64 hit the Main Street parade route with the same determination to shake every outstretched hand...
What a birthday bash for those 148 men and women in flag-red coats and 23 gleaming brass buttons who make up America's most historic ensemble! President John Adams started it all when he signed the law creating the Marine Corps in 1798, including "a drum major, a fife major, and 32 drums and fifes." From that day Presidents demanded that the band be on hand to grace their moments of triumph and tragedy. And the band got bigger and better. Recently 35 euphonium players auditioned for one position, and all of them were turned down. Only the best...
...Northern Ireland Secretary," says Hillenbrand. "It's a conflict of two rights: The right to march and the right to have peace and quiet." The key to any agreement may turn out to be common courtesy. "Perhaps the Orange will march, but play down the fife-and-drum aspect, or march without banners," he says. But Hillenbrand warns that "this is the make-or-break weekend." Sunday is the anniversary of the victory of the Protestant King William of Orange over the Catholic King James II in 1690 -- which leaves both sides until then to defuse the bomb that...
...images in his films. He talks about the "green poison of war," and instructed one actor to play a scene like "a squid being thrown up on the beach from the abyss." On the other hand, the stage directions in his script could be dauntingly airy for an actor: "Fife's terror passes gradually over into a longing for life and peace." How do you play that...
...state known for hard-nosed law enforcement, no one talked tougher than Arizona Governor Fife Symington. Since taking office in 1991 he had called countless times for more arrests and harsher penalties. "Crime is not traced to the lack of material things," he once said. "It happens through loss of values...