The drummer flogged the gourd with frantic intensity as the dancers began the calinda, a sensual gyration which had long been a favorite of voodoo practitioners and their disciples in the Louisiana slave compounds.

Watching, they waited until the squall thickened and began to move in a long drifting slant across the dry burning land.

After the war began, he long refused to permit emancipation of the slaves by Union action even in the Border States that stayed with the Union.

When the negotiations began, his quarrel with the king of France was temporarily in abeyance, and he had no intention of reviving it so long as there was hope that French money would come to pay the troops who, under Charles of Valois, the papal vicar of Tuscany, were so valuable in the crusade against the Colonna cardinals and their Sicilian allies.

Under these conditions a new generation of Europeans began to discover the bonds of long association and shared values that for so long had been subordinated to nationalist xenophobia.

As a boy Roy Mason began the long process of extracting the goodness of the out-of-doors, its tang of weather, its change of seasons, its variable moods.

Noticing Russell's horse in front of the long log building, he assumed his friend had slipped inside and would be able to put up a good fight, so he began working his way down the ditch to join him.

they compose a painful elegy to what might have been, to a marriage that began with a promise of happiness, and ended in long years of suffering and hatred.

About this time people began `` dropping in '', considering that the newly married had been left alone long enough.

From the mid 1980s, Algerian cinema began to go through a long period of lethargy where major productions became rare.

In 1329, he began a long war with the Republic of Genoa.

Sculpture and performance art are prominent, and abstract and partially abstracted forms are valued, and were valued long before influence from the Western tradition began in earnest.

With him began the long period of ascendancy of the great academies of Babylonia, around the year 220.

Although the prophets urged the people of Judah and Israel to see their exile as punishment for failing to uphold their covenant with Yahweh, it was not long after they had been restored to the land and to Temple worship that the people's commitment to their God began, once again, to wane.

It was during this period that Victoria began to depend on her servant John Brown, a local ghillie from Crathie who became one of her closest companions during her long mourning.

In an attempt to imitate Jesus, he began to wear his hair very long.

Philip led the cavalry reserve of nobles and knights to retrieve the day, and after a long and doubtful fight ( in which he himself was unhorsed and narrowly escaped death ), began to drive back the Flemings.

As NVA / VC activity grew, the United States and South Vietnam became concerned, and in 1969, the United States began a 14 month long series of bombing raids targeted at NVA / VC elements, contributing to destabilization.

The earliest descriptions of a global communications network came long before the World Wide Web entered popular awareness, though not before traditional science-fiction writers such as Arthur C. Clarke and some social commentators such as James Burke began predicting that such networks would eventually form.

After Confucius's resignation, he began a long journey or set of journeys around the small kingdoms of northeast and central China, traditionally including the states of Wei, Song, Chen, and Cai.

Machine Improvisation builds upon a long musical tradition of statistical modeling that began with Hiller and Isaacson's Illiac Suite for String Quartet ( 1957 ) and Xenakis ' uses of Markov chains and stochastic processes.

Before long, the Spanish began growing cacao beans on plantations, and using an African workforce to help manage them.

Not long after the revolution cooled down, companies began advertising this new invention to sell many of the chocolate treats we see today.

The long crankshafts of the latter suffered from an unacceptable amount of flex when engine designers began using higher compression ratios and higher rotational speeds.

When the trade association began, it had seven members and its main goal was to eliminate all duties and restrictions on the majority of their trade within 12 years.

As new genres of music, such as ragtime, blues and jazz, began to emerge in the early 20th century the popularity of the genre faded, but the association with sentimentality led to the term ballad being used for a slow love song from the 1950s onwards.

This perception began to change in the 1970s with the breakthrough of organised women's association football.

On 29 March 1940 his long association with Tribune began with a review of a sergeant's account of Napoleon's retreat from Moscow.

country of origin and native land ) is the concept of the place ( cultural geography ) to which an ethnic group holds a long history and a deep cultural association with — the country in which a particular national identity began.

In 1937 Edgerton began a lifelong association with photographer Gjon Mili, who used stroboscopic equipment, in particular, multiple studio electronic flash units, to produce strikingly beautiful photographs, many of which appeared in Life Magazine.

It wasn't until the 2nd century B. C., when Rome had conquered Italy and monopolized the commercial and road networks, that a huge diversity of products flooded the capital and began to change their diet, and by association, the diet of Italy most notably with the more frequent inclusion of meats, including as a stock for soups.

Nepal Army's long association with UN Peace Support Operations began with the deployment of five Military Observers in the Middle East, Lebanon ( UNOGIL / United Nations Observer Group in Lebanon ) in 1958.

According to Fred Siegel, the group of militants began to be accepted, if not always admired, by " guilt-ridden liberals ", who saw its panache as a countercultural critique of West Germany's " boring bourgeois life " and who resented their nation's association with the American war in Vietnam.

During this time, he then began his long association with Charlton Comics, where he did work in the genres of science fiction, horror, and mystery.

Strayhorn, originally hired as a lyricist, began his association with Ellington in 1939.

Thus began a long wartime association between the two different personalities.

She met Susan B. Anthony and began a long association with the woman's suffrage movement.

Polanski urged Tate to end her association with Martin Ransohoff, and Tate began to place less importance on her career, until Polanski told her that he wanted to be married to " a hippie, not a housewife ".

Sullivan's long association with works for the voice began with The Masque at Kenilworth ( Birmingham Festival, 1864 ).

In 1965 Derrida began an association with the Tel Quel group of literary and philosophical theorists, which lasted for seven years.

In 1926, Waller began his recording association with Victor Records, his principal record company for the rest of his life, with the organ solos " St. Louis Blues " and his own composition, " Lenox Avenue Blues ".

In 1930, Mao claimed a need to eliminate alleged KMT spies and Anti-Bolsheviks operating inside the Jiangxi Soviet and began an ideological campaign featuring torture and guilt by association, in order to eliminate his enemies.

He then began a short association with Handel in 1713 to 1714, and acted in the first performances of Il pastor fido and Teseo and played Argantes in a revival of Rinaldo.

Breaking into television as the original announcer on Steve Allen's Tonight, Gene Rayburn began a long association with game-show producers Mark Goodson and Bill Todman in 1953.

His association with director Alexander Korda began in 1933 with The Private Life of Henry VIII ( loosely based on the life of King Henry VIII ), for which Laughton won an Academy Award.

The Palestinians have been associated with Amalek since 1974 when Rabbi Moshe Ben-Tzion Ishbezari of Ramat Gan made the association in a book. The equation began to circulate in Gush Emunim circles, and its full implications were spelled out by Rabbi Yisrael Hess in 1980.

It was also in that first season in Southern California that long-time announcer Ralph Lawler began his association with the club.

Since she also was goddess of war, and thus had an additional association with death, it was said that she wove the bandages and shrouds worn by the mummified dead as a gift to them, and thus she began to be viewed as a protector of one of the Four sons of Horus, specifically, of Duamutef, the deification of the canopic jar storing the stomach, since the abdomen ( often mistakenly associated as the stomach ) was the most vulnerable portion of the body and a prime target during battle.