Word: chanting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When President Hoover begged the American Legion's 1932 convention not to insist on early payment of veterans' bonuses, what chant greeted his please...
Martin Bormann, last-minute stand-in as Class Day speaker for Henry A. Kissinger '50, is met by 9000 demonstrators organized by the New American Movement. As the protesters chant, "Martin Bormann, you can't hide: you've committed genocide," Bormann slips by them unnoticed...
Colby refused, saying, "I've been invited to a private party." The protesters continued to chant protests directed against the CIA and Colby during Colby's dinner with the Neiman Fellows...
This childish and witless retort was inspired last weekend by an equally tasteless cheer ("Harvard sucks"), and while both cheer probably contain some measure of truth, the explicit elitism makes the Crimson response far more offensive. In that self-satisfying chant, students and alumni--the most enthusiastic of whom were doubtless drawn from waiting lists--showed what is worst about Harvard...
...fight began, there was little in action or tactics to suggest the startling turnabout to come. Beneath a full moon in Kinshasa at 4 a.m. (the better for prime-time closed-circuit TV viewing in the U.S.), Ali led a crowd of almost 60,000 Zairians in a chant of "Ali boma ye!" (Ali, kill him) before he began to dance round the ring, dodging Foreman's powerful swings. It was just as the experts and even the boxers themselves had predicted: the bear was chasing...