Word: chanting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fords halted bumper to bumper behind it. Instantly the squatting students hurled themselves forward. They beat on the car with fists and poles, hammered its body and kicked the locked doors. Glass cracked in the windshield. The mob began rocking the car in rhythmic time to a chant of "Go hoh-mu, Ha-gachee!" or "Yan-kee. go hum!" Thousands of other students who had been snake-dancing and marching near by rushed to join in. A Socialist member of Parliament, wearing a red sash, looked on approvingly from the sidelines and puffed at a cigarette...
...Then, on command, one soldier stepped forward, shot Wong through the head. As Kou and the other commune workers watched, the soldiers trussed Wong's wrists and ankles and slung him over a bamboo pole like a freshly slaughtered hog. All of a sudden, the workers began to chant: "We won't work! We won't work! We won't work...
...escorts, a mounted troop of grenadiers dressed in Napoleonic uniforms, moved their horses around his car for protection. Waving the guardsmen aside, Ike greeted the dense crowds with a grin, and got a roar of welcome in return-a remarkable salute from the usually reserved Argentine public. The subdued chant of "Peron! Peron!" was drowned out by an ovation for the U.S. President...
...Whose Kenya is it?" shouted Tom. "Ours!" shrieked 20,000. Now the mob's chant was in throbbing rhythm. "Are you tired of asking for freedom?" asked Tom. "No!" came the resounding answer...
...news that the distinguished visitor was on his way came so unexpectedly that Peking barely had time to arrange the customary "spontaneous demonstrations" in his honor. At the last minute, some 3,000 shivering workers were rounded up and hustled off to the airport to chant "Long live Premier Ne Win of Burma!" But stern-faced General Ne Win was not in Peking for empty courtesies...