Word: chant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...into a litany of sentences addressed to the President that began "You may think . . ."; after each the crowd, picking up a line from the debate, joined him in shouting "It just ain't so!" As at many Mondale rallies in September, a group of hecklers began a pro-Reagan chant. But this time the hecklers had trouble making themselves heard above a spontaneous (and obscene) counterchant set up by Mondale supporters...
...than cynical, concerned rather than overbearing, slangy rather than sloppy. Persian Gulf is also one of the very few groups who not only manage to come out of a political sing-along number ("It's a Good Thing") in one piece, but, in the process, create a biting social chant ("that's the right thing to know too late...
...about Republicans sending hecklers to my rallies. It is about Jerry Falwell picking Justices for the Supreme Court." (The Fundamentalist preacher had earlier boasted that "we" will get three to five high court appointments.) The line drew a prolonged standing ovation for Mondale and a "We want Fritz" chant from the students. But the Democratic candidate usually makes an issue of the court only before liberal audiences, presumably because he fears it will not play well with more politically mixed crowds. The President has remained mum about his plans for the court, but the Republican platform calls for the appointment...
...stop it." Crowds are warming to the Democrat's tough line. In a Seattle appearance during which he repeatedly taunted Reagan for failing to say what he would do about arms control, deficits, education and other issues during a second term, Mondale prompted a union audience to chant after every sentence, "Where's the plan...
...unaccustomed hour of 6:32 a.m. on the vast expanse of steps fronting New York City's most venerable art institution. There, five Maori women lifted their voices in unison with the rising sun and intoned the karanga, a ritual call of welcome. Instantly, a booming responsive chant was heard to echo from a block up Fifth Avenue, where a group of Maori tribesmen had forgathered. Then up the steps they came: 90 Maori dignitaries, some I with albatross feathers in their hair and tasseled white cloaks draped over their business suits. Leading the procession were two nearly naked...