Word: marcher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grew closer, began to resemble a giant mandolin playing a pretty tune. It was accompanied by an insistent clanging, like a syncopated firebell. Within a few minutes no fewer than 139 steelbands burst onto Port-of-Spain's streets, gathering prancing followers as they went. The marchers strode, sensuously, with bent knees and swinging hips, sometimes six or eight clasped together in a veering line, sometimes a single marcher so excited by the music that he leaped out into an eccentric solo dance. For two days and nights the marchers and musicians strutted the streets, each band beating...
...sheep in the Future Fanners of America entry, and a church window made of colored paper. The winning float was a 12-ft., papier-mache Statue of Liberty with a flask of plasma in her right hand and a sheaf of bonds under her left arm. One student marcher confessed that his crim son Cossack coat was really a girl's bed jacket, and one of his medals was a high-school prize for oratory...
...recently, there was a dull boom in the east; the warning did not save San Pedro. Minutes later, a uniformed column approached the village. "Don't shoot!" cried one marcher. "We're the army." By the time San Pedro's police garrison of 18 realized that the column was made up of some 50 bandits in stolen army uniforms, it was too late. "Surrender or die!" the bandits roared, and with one brief heavy volley, they dispersed the defenders. Two hundred more bandits, not uniformed, but in close formation, poured into the town, shouting, "Long live...