Word: stomp
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ages. The hundreds of people packed into the Channel didn't know most of the songs the Gurus played--after all, the band was pushing Mars Needs Guitars! (Bigtime Records), its latest and largely unavailable album--but the audience didn't mind, content to bash heads and stomp on feet to the likably driving tunes...
...rape of Italy by a frothing, snorting herd? Or chance: if you cannot control the outcome of a game, at least you can control the fight. Who, in such a discussion, would omit mention of the nuclear threat: people are scared to death by tension; therefore they stomp on others...
...Lover. And something blue: Marilyn McCoo's rendition of Am I Blue? as a tribute to Ethel Waters. When the show didn't sing, it danced: Gregory Hines tapped in tribute to Teddy Hale, then Sammy Davis Jr. introduced seven old masters who demonstrated they could still glide and stomp. And it chuckled: M.C. Bill Cosby quipped and jived and, when Singer Jennifer Holliday was delayed, improvised his own burlesqued version of Gimme a Pigfoot. It also cried a river. The emotional climax came when Patti LaBelle sang You'll Never Walk Alone to Martin Luther King Jr.'s widow...
...time 10,000 men and women of Harvard come to spill drinks and stomp all over the Yard. Viriemaire and his crew will have distributed hundreds of pounds of grass seed on the Yard in an effort to pre-empt the damage. And after the alumni have wreaked their havoc, Facilties Maintenance will return and distribute some 80 pounds of fertilizer...
Arriving at village processing facilities in 50-kilo bales, the harvested leaves are laid out in the sun to dry. They are then soaked in a solution of water and kerosene, which releases the cocaine contained in the leaves. Peasants stomp on the soaking mixture for several hours to turn it into coca paste, which is then mixed with sulfuric acid, lime, potassium permanganate and more kerosene. The cream-colored substance that is left after the liquid is squeezed out is coca base, the raw material that is sent to refineries to be turned into cocaine. This transformation is accomplished...