Word: chanting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ushers politely handling the overflow at a football stadium. But as darkness fell, some in the crowd got false courage from the night. They tossed firecrackers over police lines. Pressing forward inch by inch, the mob began to push the police back. From time to time the crowd would chant...
Shortly before 10 o'clock, the mob moved close enough to hit the apartment house with bricks and stones. The chant of "Go! Go! Go!", the firecrackers and the sound of breaking glass became a steady din. Then, just as the mob seemed to be getting out of hand, there was the sound of sirens down the street and a cry: "It's the Guard...
...days earlier at the party's 12th Street headquarters (less than two blocks from his town house). Judge Ryan demanded the names of the people who had put up the bail money, arguing that they might know where the four were. Field refused to answer, with the usual chant that it "might tend to incriminate me." Judge Ryan replied: "The witness is obligated to disclose the identity of people for whom he acted as trustee, because their disclosure may result in the arrest of the fugitives...
...ugly temple, the temple sacrosanct, by us unvisited, unvisitable, so ugly, grim, grotesque, and blah . . . Enough, enough, of all this folly, this cruelty and this superstition-into the white car now and out of town." But what the Mormons had done with the countryside sent him into an ecstatic chant: "And then below the most lovely and enchanted valley of them all-the great valley around Logan . . . the very core and fruit of Canaan-a vast sweet plain of unimaginable riches-loaded with fruit, lusty with cherry orchards, green with its thick and lush fertility and dotted everywhere with...
...charge. Next, the children were cross-questioned to get "charges" against the women. ("Do these foreigners make you study too hard? Do they ever scold you?") At last, they were turned out of their residence and packed off, while former students, patients and friends were assembled under guard to chant: "American imperialists-Asia doesn't want you -Go home...