Word: chantings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...road. The Communists evidently collared the whole population for miles around, peasants, coolies, children, women with babies, old people, everyone who could walk. It was raining. They worked with straw baskets, shovels, picks, bare hands. They were like ants. After dark they worked ,by torchlight, singing a strange, monotonous chant like a dirge. At midnight, we saw the lights of the first trucks coming through...
...deadly game goes on, the chant of the battery man makes the crew's blood run cold. Every time he speaks, he reports a lower reading. Lights and fans are turned off to save trickles of current. The air grows hot and foul. When the battery's last charge is gone, the submarine must rise to the surface, perhaps to destruction...
...gang, riled by the refusal of the Aleutian's owners to sign on members of their union (in defiance of local custom), were ready for a major dockside clash. Armed with clubs, pipes, knives and hammers, Bridges' men waited in tense silence, broken only by the eerie chant of their leaders: "Stay loose, men. I say, stay loose. Don't get tight...
Almost simultaneously with the close of the talk, a group of Balzotti fanatics started a demonstration in the Yard. Although it was raining, nearly 300 freshmen came out of their dorms for half an hour to march and chant "We Want Balzotti" until the Yard police broke up the rally...
Petrillo (Eddie Oliver and the Oliver Twisters; Allied). ''Everybody blames poor Petrillo," chant these singers in what sounds like a peace overture between the vocalists' union and Petrillo's A.F.M. The lament is lamented in close harmony...