Word: chantings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...windows and both were closed. Sweating and choking, we tried to open the windows, but they were stuck fast. Some of us cried. Others panicked. We knocked at the doors, but there was no answer. In despair we began preparing ourselves for death. One of the prisoners started to chant the Shahada ("There is no God but God and Mohammed is His Prophet. . ."), and the rest of us followed in faint voices. One after another died. Death was getting us so quickly, so horribly...
...cadets at the U.S. Mer chant Marine Academy at Kings Point, L.I. were off to a carnival rather than to regular evening mess. They wore golf caps, bowlers, toppers and turbans. They marched into the mess hall with huge signs saying "Move Over, Annapolis" and "Our Ship Has Come In." The cadets had good reason to celebrate. Last week President Eisenhower signed a bill making Kings Point the nation's fifth permanent service school, thus putting it on a legal par with Annapolis, West Point, and the Air Force and Coast Guard Academies...
...This, says Autherine, "is a day I'll never want to live through again." She arrived at Smith Hall in a black Cadillac driven by Henry Nathaniel Guinn, Negro owner of a Birmingham finance company. A crowd of 300 had already gathered around the hall, suddenly began to chant "Hey, hey, ho, ho. Autherine must go." At the end of class Dean of Women Sarah L. Healy and Carmichael's assistant, Jefferson Bennett, led Autherine out a back door to a waiting car. The mob spotted them, began throwing eggs and stones as the car sped...
...victim of its own success. Statesmen, who are politicians when they get back home, have found it all too easy to believe that their security is the result, not of their own strength but of a change in Russian hearts. "The threat of war is diminishing." they chant...
Chief target for this chant is U.S. General Alfred Gruenther, Supreme Commander of all NATO forces in Europe. To the chanters, Gruenther retorts that the only change in the Russians is what NATO's strength has forced on them. With a cascade of facts drawn from an incredible memory, an inextinguishable smile and a dry Nebraska lucidity that is the admiration of every statesman in Europe, Al Gruenther fights that tired feeling with a combination of public optimism and private exhortation that is his specialty. To those who speak of Russian smiles, he recites precise figures of Russian forces...