Word: chanting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...statesman, too? It is still too early to tell. But some of his countrymen are already calling him "the Eisenhower of the Pacific." When he showed up on Manila's docks last week to welcome home his election policemen, the crowd mobbed him and sent up a chant: "Mabuhay [long live] Magsaysay, our next President...
...CLOSED CHANT...
...MYSTIC CHANT...
...OPEN CHANT...
...chant became deafening. How could he supply the proof without the files? Then Truman changed his mind. Before McCarthy even saw what the State Department turned over to the committee, he pronounced it "a phony offer of phony files." The files had been "raped," he cried. Tydings had the FBI send over a copy of all investigative reports it had; two security officers checked, and found everything there. But Tydings carelessly announced that the FBI had checked the files. McCarthy promptly got a letter from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover saying that the FBI itself had not made the check...