Word: chant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jesse, run! Run, Jesse, run.The chants roll toward him, rumbling like a pent-up storm, rising to the rafters and the stained-glass portrait of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. With the practiced rhythms of preacher and pitchman, he launches his sermon on power. "There's a freedom train acoming," he intones. "But you got to be registered to ride." Amen! "Get on board! Get on board!" There is fire in his eyes, a pin in his starched collar, a finger in the air. "We can move from the slave ship to the championship! From the guttermost...
Jackson is in fact such a bugbear to many whites that he is sometimes a political liability. After the celebration of Harold Washington's primary victory in Chicago, at which Jackson planted himself on the podium and led an impolitic chant of "We want it all!", he was shooed away from the general election
...Listen to the innocent one," said a nearby powerbroker gently scoffing. "He asks when there is going to be a recovery." Pretty soon, other people in the crowd joined in with the chant--"When is the recovery? When is the recovery?" they shouted...
...flight attendant's after-takeoff chant is so familiar that to an experienced traveler it sounds like "Blah, blah, blah, seat belts. Mumble, jumble, life vests under your seats." Suddenly there is an ear-opening sentence: "Welcome to People Express, the fastest-growing airline in the history of aviation!" Welcome, indeed. We are aboard People's el cheapo $149 Newark-to-London flight, and the mood of most of us is light to the point of giddiness. Who cares if it costs $3 to check a suitcase? Most of us are traveling light. So what if instead...
People watching from apartments overlooking the mile-long route applauded from open windows. Encouraged by the support, the demonstrators shouted their slogans even louder: "No freedom without Solidarity," "Freedom of speech," "We want truth." When a group of priests waved from a church balcony, the crowd picked up the chant, "The priests are with us. The Pope is with us." Crucifixes bobbed alongside Solidarity banners and Polish flags. Said a Warsaw University student: "The Pope's presence gives the people courage to say what they think. What you see here is the real Poland...