Word: anthemic
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...feel the atmosphere of frenzied Fenway, a national anthem which was sung by the kids in section 33 as if it was tailor made for drunks; the pre-game crowd chatter, the constant murmur of indistinguishable jock-talk, like a quick search for a station on the car radio...
...braided blue uniform, Generalissimo Francisco Franco stepped out onto the balcony of the Royal Palace overlooking Madrid's Plaza de Oriente. Instantly, the human sea of 150,000 faithful down below him thrust right arms forward in salute. Then the crowd launched into Face to the Sun, the anthem of the right-wing Falangist shopkeepers and tradesmen who sided with Franco when he began his bloody struggle for power 39 years ago and have been unswerving in their support of him ever since. Franco spoke only three minutes in his thin, barely audible voice, but that...
...crowd was cheering everything, from Yaz and Loo-ee to Claudel Washington and even Flight 502. An occasional cry went up for Luis Alvarado and Jose Santiago (remember them?). Four fans sang the national anthem...
...secret number at the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst, where she and Husband Mark Phillips live. Only two days after the number was changed, reported the Mirror, the off-color caller discovered the new royal connection, resumed his work, and at one point "started to whistle the national anthem" before the princess could hang up. Though Buckingham Palace spokesmen dismissed the business as a simple case of "nuisance calls" and denied that Anne herself had actually heard the prankster, police confirmed that there had indeed been some "deep breathing" on the line. Scotland Yard launched an investigation, and the Department...
...cannot expect miracles." Yet even he seemed impatient for miracles in the end. No one ever doubted that his objectives were laudable. Mujib wanted nothing less than to build a "shonar Bangla," the golden Bengal of the poem by Rabindranath Tagore that serves as the country's national anthem...