Word: chanted
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...have a friend take a picture of you extending dual middle fingers to all those cleverly chanting, “Who’s your daddy?” You resign yourself to being the one unsmiling person in every photograph someone will take of Harvard Square on the night of Wednesday, October 21st. (You feel no such anger towards those who dumbly started the chant “Four more games” as opposed to “Four more wins,” though...
...because of a belated group realization of Natalie Portman’s ’03 departure. The Yankees’ extra-inning victory over the Red Sox in Game 7 of the American League Championship Series last year was a stab to the hearts of all those who chant, “Reverse the curse...
...sound of shuffling feet announces her entrance as dozens of youngsters rise from their seats to chant in unison: "We welcome our headmistress." Jane Kansiime, who runs the Kamwokya primary school in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, silently reviews the students, who stand politely at attention, five to a bench. Most wear the navy-and-turquoise school uniform, but other colors speckle the crowded classroom: a yellow shirt, a red dress, a white blouse. "We are not rigid here, as long as a child can come," says Kansiime, 40. "It's not the clothes that make the child learn." Six years...
...know that the reform minion had no control of these melodies, and aside from the mel-odious prayers, the service was enjoyable (and the participants were top notch, if we do say so ourselves). Hillel tried hard to rein in the renegade cantor, convincing him to chant less in the High Holidays themes and more in the familiar everyday melodies...
...years, that hushed self-pity has metamorphosed into an aggressive self-loathing most frequently manifested in obnoxious ad hoc mob attacks on single unsuspecting Yankee fans. Red Sox fans don’t even need a reason to break out the “Yankees suck!” chant any more. A group of them recognize one another as Sox fans at a Dispatch concert? Yankees suck. The Celtics are blowing out the Cleveland Cavaliers at the FleetCenter? Yankees suck. The Patriots just won the Super Bowl and fans have started overturning cars and setting trash cans on fire...