Word: chantings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Insistent in adult ears, the rhythmic tick-tick-tick of jump ropes sounded last week across the land. From Atlanta to San Francisco, from Boston to Dallas, the shrill chant of little-girl voices made loud the early morning's quiet and the twilight's repose. To the irascible, the runes sounded much as ever, but a careful listener could detect differences. In Dallas, little girls chanted...
...Throw Them Out." Such teaching produces the hooligan bands that raid Western Berlin and smear Communist slogans on the walls. It organizes the grinning gangs that stand on Potsdamer Platz and chant songs about how the FDJ would throw the "splitters of Germany" (i.e., the Western Allies) out of Berlin...
...near future, all physically fit youngsters will have to complete a two-month course of police training, as a prelude to a general, semimilitary conscription. FDJ members sing political propaganda, the way American youngsters sing football songs. FDJ people's police units, marching in Berlin parades, chant their thudding song...
...moment, and the 13,000 or so of them in Detroit's Olympia Stadium sent up a great roar. The roar subsided to happy bedlam as Red Wing Team Captain Sid Abel accepted the trophy cup in center ice. Then the Detroit crowd struck up a chant: "We want Howe...
...program, did everything that was asked of them. If plain song gets a little boring to an untrained ear, it nevertheless events a truly pious mood, and Paul Tibbetts, Robert Beekwith, and Robert Gartside joined with Conductor Woodworth and the chorus in a polished presentation. From 17th century plain chant to 20th century linear counterpoint, the Glee Club and Choral Society showed what a fine musical organization...