Word: anthemic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...torrent of violent images. Heads on pikes. Hungry mobs storming Versailles. Women knitting and jeering in front of the scaffold. Marat murdered in his bath. The zealous Saint-Just railing, "There is no liberty for the enemies of liberty!" And the battalions of Marseilles singing the nation's new anthem: "May the blood of the impure soak our fields...
Students with arms linked sang the national anthem and shouted "Long live democracy...
...kids knew whom to thank for the lighter touch. One of the new bands, a Moscow-based group called Grand Prix, introduced a song last year called simply Gorbachev. The haunting chorus ("I understand! Gorbachev!") is less a tribute to the man in power than a defiant youth anthem, undoubtedly the first to use a Soviet leader as an emblem of teenage aspirations...
...final words of the national anthem echo throughout the University of Minnesota's Mariucci Arena in Minneapolis tonight, the spectating masses will be anticipating three periods of college hockey at its finest...
ITHACA, N.Y.--It was a strange scene here last night at Lynah Rink when the Harvard men's hockey team lined up for the singing of the national anthem...