Word: chanting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jerry Rubin, the Yippie-turned-Yuppie credited with the sixties' chant, "Don't trust anyone over 30," has died two weeks after he was hit by a car while jaywalking in Los Angeles. Rubin, 56, gained fame as one of the Chicago Seven who led bloody protests against the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, then wore judicial robes into court -- inviting nearly 200 contempt citations -- while being tried on conspiracy charges in connection with the riots. He later became a tailored businessman, selling health foods and networking on Wall Street, and once said he cut his hair and shaved...
Skirmishes quickly spread to other parts of Gaza City. Officials ordered a curfew, to no avail. Hamas and Islamic Jihad supporters filled the streets, chanting anti-Arafat slogans and menacing the authorities. One mob descended on Arafat's military headquarters and tried to pull down the surrounding fence. The radicals denounced Arafat and his followers as stooges for Israel and vowed revenge. During a funeral procession for one of the fallen, a mourner took up an increasingly popular chant, "O Arafat, O Arafat, the Jihad killed Sadat," a reference to the Egyptian leader assassinated by fundamentalists...
Even Roosevelt aides, responding to the universal GOP chant of "Four more years!" said "two more years" would be a more realistic view of Weld's second term, which they expect to be cut short by his bid for the presidency...
Radcliffe's principal value is as a relic. It's like a Gregorian chant, hundreds of years old, though still relevant to music today. It's a living, breathing scrapbook of brick and mortar and fundraising officers who make us remember days gone by. It's the stuffed head of your dead grandfather that the family keeps over the fireplace to remind you of the time that he fought in the Great War and the right side of his face hadn't been eaten away by maggots...
...professional athletes -- when they are not on strike or locked out -- and their adoring fans, there is nothing so exultant, as the chant of "We're No. 1!" American business executives are getting somewhat the same feeling. Finally, finally, they are beating their Japanese, German, South Korean, Taiwanese, name-the-country rivals -- and in products like autos, machine tools and computer chips, where a few years ago they were being trounced. The U.S. firms are not only turning back an import invasion of American markets but also triumphing in so-called third-country export markets and even swiping some sales...