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Mr. Powell, playing double-stroke rolls on his toms, was insinuative; Mr. Marsalis, starting out with a fusillade on his snare, was aggressive.
Jazzfest: Drum Battles and a Tribute to Max Roach - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Mr. Powell, playing double-stroke rolls on his toms, was insinuative; Mr. Marsalis, starting out with a fusillade on his snare, was aggressive.
Jazzfest: Drum Battles and a Tribute to Max Roach - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Not the frivolous Selick Washinsky “vay iz mir my son has run off with a shikseh” sort of stroke—the Jewish double-stroke in which one seizure cancels out another—but the full neurological catastrophe, leaving him incapable of doing anything but smile.
Kalooki Nights Howard Jacobson 2006
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Here in Los Angeles, Kate Adamson, in 1995, when she was 35 years old, she suffered a devastating double-stroke that left her paralyzed.
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The linkage causes the flywheel to make two revolutions for each double-stroke of the engine piston rod B.
Kinematics of Mechanisms from the Time of Watt Eugene S. Ferguson 1960
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I use single - and double-stroke hotkeys for nearly all other commands and I operate with my Properties toolbar open invariably.
chained_bear commented on the word double-stroke
see buzz roll.
March 11, 2008