Word: chanting
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...every day at 1:45 removes herself to a corner to change. She takes off her white attendant's uniform, steps into a long purple acetate dress and fastens a single strand of pearls. At 1:48 she begins to sweep again. She times the sweep to a rhythmic chant that does not vary from day to day. "Two o'clock, pool closes, hurry up please...
...section of the stands, reefers were moving, bottles of T-bird were draining, and the choruses to a chant were deafening...
...doing exercises-is as carefully controlled and lovely as a fugue. It is characteristic of Eastman that the sounds of the gym-a jump rope skipping against the floor, a bag being punched hard in irregular rhythm, the bursts of quick breath from the athletes- mingle with a Gregorian chant issuing, presumably, from upstairs. The place is called, after all. the New Avenue Walk-up Gym and Cultural Center. It could be a sort of royal court for the kind of kingdom Eastman creates, whimsical but not cute, tinctured with a sort of likely absurdity...
...chant of the union's anthem made a nice show for the press, but he seemed to overlook the obvious factionalism among workers on the picket lines at several of Chrysler's Detroit area plants...
...barrier, and several young men prepared to assault the other side. Their impotence was quickly made clear, however, by an East German soldier, who pointedly reloaded his submachine gun and aimed it at their faces. Scattered shouts of "murderers," "criminals" and "swine" changed to a rhythmic chant of rage and frustration. Eventually West Berlin police arrived and told the crowd to go back to bed. "Ah, they were great, these Berliners, just great," exclaimed a French military policeman who was there...