Word: kettledrums
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...almost as painful as when Mike Dukakis put on the helmet, which fit him like a kettledrum, and climbed into the tank for a photo op. Gore didn't know the words but tried to fake it, and that was the least of his problems. You wanted to run up and tell him: Don't pretend this is the least bit comfortable for you. It only makes it worse...
...were forged for the artistic elevation of soups. Its expansive, gleaming copper bowl tilted jauntily to a side and the drumhead stretched taut over its opening suggest hidden depths of bouillon--of boiling meats and vegetables. The common name for the timpani is, not surprisingly, the kettledrum. Originally a military instrument, primitive versions of the timpani were slung over the backs of horses in cavalry units and, aside from their practical uses in battle, often served in processions and other public events as a sort of status symbol...
...described the scene: "I counted 16 soldiers lying on the ground. One was groaning, with his hands on his stomach and blood pouring through them. Another's head was a mass of blood." Others spoke of bodies, and of a single leg, literally flying through the air. A kettledrum and French horn came to rest 30 yds. from the blast. Said a grim-faced survivor: "It was a massacre without warning. Children were splattered with bits of the bandsmen's bodies." Six musicians died. The other 24 were wounded, twelve seriously...
Occasionally Goodman's skewered mates get their own back. Whipping around to strike his No. 4 kettledrum once, he flailed empty air. A colleague had tied a rope to the big copper bowl and, while Goodman was looking elsewhere, hauled it away...
...Leader Gerald Ford, "is a good one from our standpoint." Indeed, the plot that he laid out was compelling, if not exactly original. It called for G.O.P. Representatives and their Southern Democratic allies to deny Lyndon Johnson his request for an unpopular tax increase, beat every tom-tom and kettledrum for economy, and force the President to take responsibility for specific spending cuts. The House last week voted 238 to 164 to do just that...