Word: anthem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cheyenne, Wyo., and got his kicks by galloping along a slow-moving freight taking pot shots at hoboes with his six-gun. Those who survived ran into a different danger in trackside camps. Homosexuality was rampant, and Allsop insists that The Big Rock Candy Mountain, the hobo's anthem, is really "a homosexual tramp serenade," one of "the 'ghost stories' the accomplished seducer spins to entice a child away with him on the next train...
Pray as he might, George Romney last week found the wind nipping off Mount Washington at ten below zero, the waves of voter popularity running 3-to-l in favor of Richard Nixon, and the need to do right as urgent as the lyrics of his new campaign anthem. Whether coursing New Hampshire's icy highways in his cream-colored Dodge camper truck or standing without earmuffs before factory gates, he seemed tough enough for the weather-if not for the competition-in the first primary campaign of the 1968 election...
...best, and dance troupes show off special costumes, songs, and folk dances. Someone makes a party speech--for the one party, the Parti Democratique de Cote d'Ivoire--the sous-prefet shows off his glittering best uniform, party faithfuls collect medals, Adzope's wheezing brass band coughs the national anthem, and people go wild dancing in the streets. It's a gala...
Because the text is both offensive and frightening to many foreigners, West Germans have been asked by the Bonn government not to use the first stanza of the German national anthem. It begins with a rousing Deutschland, Deutschland über Alles, and goes on to lay claim to vast tracts of land that either never were German or have been ceded to other countries after two lost wars.* Instead, Bonn has asked West Germans to sing the far less nationalistic third stanza, which calls simply for "unity, justice and freedom for the German Fatherland." Nowadays that request is being defiantly...
From now on the organ will be used regularly in Memorial Church services, both as a solo instrument and for service and anthem accompaniments...