She was a beauty queen, a drum majorette, a math whiz and A-student who found it unjust that Spelman denied her an academic scholarship but gave them to others who hadn't done as well.
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In Dublin, a red-clad band of traditional drum majorettes from Texas Tech University in Lubbock kicked high and jumped and spun, delighting crowds in the rain and wind on O'Connell Street, the capital's main thoroughfare.
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"One crack addict drag queen used to walk down the center lane of Edgewood Avenue in a drum majorette uniform at rush hour, holding up traffic, " said MacDonald, a social worker and community advocate.
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But the rally of 200, 000 people, with its balloons and drum majorettes, was a demonstration of the lessons learned by the Philippine people : that democracy can be easily lost and must be defended.
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In his 1993 poetry collection, " Out of Danger ", James Fenton mentions Glubb Pasha in " Here Come the Drum Majorettes ! " : " There's a Gleb on a steppe in a dacha.
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Bolted-down trophies of all kinds _ drum majorettes, ballroom dancers, bowlers, winged women holding flames, clubless golfers who seem to be dancing with each other _ protrude from the grille, hood, roof and trunk of the 1967 Dodge Dart.
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In neighboring Zimbabwe, where AIDS now claims about 300 lives a day, drum majorettes marched through the center of the capital, Harare, to raise AIDS awareness, while about 500 people attended a rally where officials urged men to practice safe sex.
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Behind the scenes, a woman ( Kay Medford ) turns up claiming to be his legitimate wife, he berates his staff, and betrays Jeffries by eloping with a 17-year-old drum majorette ( Lee Remick ) whose baton-twirling act he features on his next TV program.
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Lalor has an eye for the incongruous and bizarre, whether it be drum majorettes at the St . Patrick's Day Parade in Dublin ( an import from America ), the James Joycean celebration of Bloomsday in Dublin, a bicycle excursion through Donegal with an overweight German, or the the shrunken head of the martyr Oliver Plunkett.
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But he suggested that he would keep speaking out, by insisting that " if an unexpected person " with spirit and ability decided to run for president, it would not matter " whether that person became well known as a basketball player or a businessman or wrestler or a grocery store clerk or a drum majorette ."
