Word: chanted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ainsi se brise un noble coeur. Bonne . nuit, gentil prince, Que le chant de cohortes d'anges te conduise vers le repos...
Last week about a thousand people had gathered before Abbey Lodge, a large modern block of flats requisitioned by the Air Ministry. Gradually a swelling chant of "Bedding for the squatters-bedding for the squatters-" rose, reached a frightening crescendo and fell again. From the squatters, whose morale still held, came the answering chant, "We'll stick it-we'll stick it." A poorly dressed woman wiped her eyes, smiled and said: "Ah, bless 'em, poor devils, I reckon they deserve medals for this." On the outskirts of the crowd a middleaged, middle-class man stood watching...
When Tito drives through the streets of Belgrade in a bullet-proof car, accompanied by tanks and four truckloads of soldiers, crowds yell: "Tito, Ti-to!" (to the familiar rhythm of "Duce, Du-ce!"). Children chant: "Kral se zenio, Tito se borio" ("The King married, Tito fought"). Ancient ballads praising ex-King Peter's ancestor (Kara George, a prominent Serbian hero and hog farmer) are changed to fit Tito. Sample...
...maggoty toilets, he forced them to lick clean their fouled shoe soles. At other times he lined up a handful of U.S. officers, ordered U.S. enlisted men to go down the line, punching each officer in the face, while he stood there crying, "Next, next" until it became a chant that haunted prisoners' dreams...
...Real Task." In a moment, outside in Pennsylvania Avenue, there was a roaring chant: "We want Truman!" The President quickly obliged. He and Mrs. Truman went out to the columned portico, then down the green lawn to within 25 feet of the shouting thousands behind the iron fence and the row of MPs who brought their bayoneted rifles to port arms...