Word: chanting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...millionaire's mansion which has been converted into a Waikiki nightclub, 372 aloha-shirted delegates of the International Longshoremen's & Warehousemen's Union gathered last week to sing the praises of their leader, Harry Bridges, and chant approval of the line he wanted them to follow. Still out on bail after his perjury conviction last year (for denying Communist Party membership), Harry Bridges strode cockily onstage, laid out a 117-page report for his boys to pass. The boys passed it, by standing vote. The report denounced...
...west of Moscow. Against Covarrubias' huge, color-splashed drops, 64 masked dancers tumbled, twisted and stretched. In the final ceremonial dance of thanks, they were reinforced by a corps of musclemen from a local physical education school. With 65 musicians and a chorus of 36 to play and chant Chávez' powerful rhythmic music, the effect was volcanic...
Which has led the Fellows to think this phrase may soon appear in the public prints, and chant quietly to themselves...
...summonses had commanded all offenders to appear at 9 a.m. At 9:30, to the chant of "Stand up! Stand up!" repeated by boosters in various corners of the room, wizened Judge Arthur P. Stone '93 entered the court through a curtain behind the bench. The bailiff bellowed in 17th century English that it was March 8th and that Court was in session...
...enjoy "the hospitality of our wonderful Mediterranean climate, where, until passions die down, he could spend the last years of his life, loved and respected." In Paris, a few World War I veterans, celebrating the 35th anniversary of the Battle of Verdun, remembered their old hero, set up a chant of "Set Pétain free" before police could silence them...