Word: skirl
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Canadian Army women may skirl bagpipes-but not in kilts that show the knees. In Ottawa. National Defense Headquarters ruled that man-size kilts on a woman are a breach of Scottish tradition...
...skirl of bagpipes, which has long lifted the hackles of Scottish fighters, has so stirred U.S. Marines stationed in Londonderry that they have formed their own pipe band. With chanters & drones and drums, such Scots-by-sentiment as Privates Chartowich, Ritz and Rozelle have practiced pibrochs and set to the pipes the Marine's own Semper Fidelis...
Last Chance? Meeting in Bracken's home town (Winnipeg), the right-left Tories opened their convention with a brave skirl of pipes. They gave a rousing farewell to able Senator Arthur Meighen, whose party leadership collapsed last February when he was defeated in a parliamentary by-election. They gave as rousing a welcome to quiet, friendly, pince-nezed, 59-year-old Bracken, electing him on the second ballot...
...Causeway dwindled off. Finally, with a touch of ceremony such as only the British could devise in such circumstances, the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, who had been the first Britons to meet the Japanese up Thailand way, marched across, the last to leave Malaya. They marched to the defiant skirl of an Argyll bagpipe...
...minutes the attackers had taken Butch. In due course Jack fell down and Jill came tumbling after. Tiger, the stiffest of the four, was assigned to a famous Scottish regiment. It went into battle to a sound it loved-its pipe major, who had not been allowed to skirl his bagpipes in Tobruk, played...