Word: chanted
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...mostly young people already enamored with the benefits of pot, and looking to celebrate a bright sunny day by firing up a bowl on Boston Common. Still, among the mix were plenty of pro-pot politicians, attempting to rake in some political capital from the event, including the incessant chant from the Green Party table, “If you smoke green, you should vote Green...
...challenge to non-Western cultures everywhere to become global without being globalized, to step on the world playing field without being ground into it. In today's global music, musical boundary hopping is often integral to a political message, as when Haiti's Boukman Eksperyans sets a Creole antiwar chant to the tune of Kyu Sakamoto's 1963 single Sukiyaki, an American chart topper by way of Japan. (For Bookman, even singing in Creole--which has periodically been outlawed in Haiti--is a political act.) Protest singers in Africa and the Caribbean have long preached a musical and lyrical...
...Sydney, for example, the crowds were incredibly vocal, and would chant, and go crazy. And this made every venue and every event incredibly exciting for he crowds and for the athletes. I fear that?s one of the things will be lacking in China...
...homes is a stunning beachscape. The setting sun silhouettes scores of ships run aground, groaning as their rusting hulls shift on the sand. Look closer and you'll see thousands of workers moving like hermit crabs across the oil-slicked beach, dismantling the vessels sheet by metal sheet. They chant and smile while they carry the monstrous slabs of tonnage for as little as 13 an hour. "Singing makes us forget the pain," says a young laborer, his tanned body smeared with grease...
...Northern Hemisphere's longest day of the year, 14,500 Druids, New Agers and friends crowded around Stonehenge in England to dance and chant as the sun rose...