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Word: rammed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lateef at Cranbrook (Yusef Lateef, tenor sax; Frank Morelli, baritone sax; Terry Pollard, piano; William Austin, bass; Frank Gant, drums; Argo). A quintet given to spicing the group sound with finger cymbals, a one-stringed rebab, and a scraped ram's horn turns its talents to exploring Leader-Composer Lateef's oriental-flavored jazz fancies. Morning and Let Every Soul Say Amen may be too exotic for some tastes, but the easy-swinging sax flights of Gillespie's Woody'n You ought to set any pulse to bouncing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Jazz Records | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

...philosophy you cannot avoid it. We are going to question the student's dearest beliefs," Demos states. "I don't try to protect the freshmen, but I don't attempt to ram the ideas into them. I try to examine also the assumptions on which science is built. Our job is to examine everything...

Author: By Charles S. Maier, | Title: Faculty Eschews Pedagogical Proselytizing | 6/11/1959 | See Source »

Frankie's arrival was the capper. He snarled "Nothing to say" to reporters greeting him at the airport, threatened (his weight: 140 Ibs.) a photographer at the Melbourne Stadium, where he appeared: "Take another picture and I'll ram that camera down your throat. You stink." Cried the Sydney Daily Telegraph: "Frankie plays hard to get-but who wants him?" The answer, obviously, was Ava; she haunted his dressing room at the stadium, a front-row seat when he sang "Why not take all of me?" and his suite at his hotel. But bodyguards were always outside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD ABROAD: Solitude, Sweet Solitude | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

...what is by now the pretense, of being a representative. The student-leader's guiding motive shifts from the electorate to his own mind, or his own desires; the rationale is no longer representation, but power; not altruism, but egoism. And with this comes the abnegation of responsibility, a ram pant evil among Harvard undergraduates...

Author: By Richard N. Levy, | Title: Student Representative: Academic Alienation | 4/17/1959 | See Source »

...bill, passed by Congress, giving the government permission to sell or lease a featherbedded, government-owned meatpacking plant. Workers at the plant listened to a harangue by a top Peronista, then chained the gate and barricaded themselves in. Frondizi did not hesitate. Using a Sherman tank as a battering ram, his troops marched in and took back the plant. Sixty-two Peronista-dominated unions went out on a protest strike, followed by 19 Communist-dominated unions and 32 independent unions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: The Harassed Advocate | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

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