Word: skirl
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...enterprising Brooklyn Academy of Music (TIME, Jan. 14) is currently enlivening the borough with a four-month British Theater Season. With a flare of trumpets, a skirl of bagpipes and a welcoming speech from London-born, Brooklyn-bred New York City Mayor Abraham Beame, the Royal Shakespeare Company inaugurated the season with Richard II and Sylvia Plath...
...celebrated the first anniversary of his accession to Uganda's presidency after leading a coup that ousted the demagogic Milton Obote. There was a massive parade through the streets of Kampala, Uganda's capital, which featured a band in kilts and busbies marching to the skirl of bagpipes and sinuous dances by women from the Karamoja area dressed in colorful bras and wood-bark skirts. In all, more than 100,000 celebrating Ugandans, representing most of the nation's 39 tribes and four regions, gathered to pay tribute to the mercurial leader who is familiarly known...
FROM a door of Chicago's cavernous McCormick Place came the glorious skirl of bagpipes and the thunderous roll of drums. Smartly clad in black jackets and Kennedy tartan kilts, the Eleventh Ward Shannon Rovers began their march down the 600-ft.-long red carpet. The walls reverberated to the strains of the Garry Owen march, the favorite tune of the guest of honor, the present and almost certainly future mayor of the city of Chicago-Richard J. Daley...