Word: chant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...coasted on to the River Street Bridge. Thinking that was the finish line, the Harvards rested on their oars. In the confusion, the Radcliffers pulled ahead to the white marker, 50 yards away, but still thought they had lost and began the traditional peeling of shirts to the chant: "Take 'em off, take 'em off!" With great foresight, they had worn two shirts apiece...
...voice sounded youthful; it also sounded as though its owner could smile. His voice was shallow, occasionally flat, and pitched a little too high for comfort (he lowered the pitch for his second broadcast). The President tended to chant his carefully enunciated phrases by syllables-one, two, three, four; one, two, three, four. His pronunciations had Missouri and Midwest antecedents: "entire"' was "ENtire...
...secret sun-worshipping sect of Dunovists. Founded 25 years ago by a Professor Dunov, who died in Sofia last week, the sect numbers some 700 men & women. Each summer the Dunovists climb Mount Musala, Bulgaria's highest mountain, in order to be nearer the sun. They also chant hymns to the sun every morning, preach human regeneration by living close to nature...
...Bsherri, a 4,000-year-old village high in the Lebanon Mountains, on Jan. 6, 1883. On Christmas Eve every human being in the village walked through the snow to church, carrying a lighted lantern. At midnight the bells began, and children and old men sang an ancient Galilean chant. They spoke in Aramaic, the language of Jesus. Kahlil said later that on three different occasions he had seen...
...farmers hoed sugar beets, tended their barnyard fowl. Plank walks were set on fences above the water. At one place dike workers mended the torn sea wall in the age-old manner. A score of them hauled on the ropes of a leaden pile driver, keeping time to the chant of a greybeard...