Word: shuns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Deep River Inn, a bar on Main Street, to shout greetings, swap tales and compare instruments above the din of indoor fifing. Drummers, however, are usually kind enough not to play their instruments indoors; instead they rattle their sticks on the Formica tabletops. Unlike contemporary bands, fifers and drummers shun all modern innovations. Calfskin heads are used on drums instead of plastic ones, and a system of rope and leather ears is utilized to keep the heads taut, rather than metal rods. The fife must be the genuine article: a primitive piccolo consisting simply of a tube (usually wooden) with...
...with scant training and fewer resources. At the other extreme, big-city departments often become as isolated as Tibetan kingdoms. Unlike business, virtually all police forces discourage applicants for middle-management jobs by hiring only rookies or chiefs; as a result, most graduates of new college police programs shun local forces for jobs with the FBI or private guard agencies. The effect shows. No police chief is listed...
...sign up more. The county has been carved into precincts and sub-precincts, with cochairmen in each to set up committees on transportation, babysitting, telephoning and finances. Car pools are organized to drive rural residents to the registrar's office. Blacks, well aware of their political image shun pickup trucks for such duty...
...Defensemen Shun the Stick
...over the emptiness of Hollywood's recent productions. Their scripts shun new insights into human behavior. They lack even the requisite for plain entertainment-richness of detail. The incidents that occasionally occur in these films are threadbare. Save that gag. Sam-you'll need it for those ten TV shows you're doing after this script...