Word: chantings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hate Chant. Even after a formal cease-fire was signed by Caamaño, the rebel radio kept up its hate chant: "Shoot the foreign invaders! Shoot the foreign invaders!" The opportunity came too often. Taking a wrong turn at the 30th of March Avenue, two paratroopers in a Jeep blundered into rebel territory, swiftly realized their mistake and pointed their rifle muzzles down as a signal of truce. They were cut down in a flurry of fire. Next day a marine convoy of two Jeeps and a three-quarter-ton truck again drove by accident into rebel territory. Four...
...scaled the dormitory wall, and one actually reached the fourth floor. Surprised, but happy girls hurled several dozen articles of underclothes from the balconies. After the Lesley girls were ushered back into their rooms by matrons, the demonstrators returned to the Cliffe where they taunted Moors Hall with the chant, "Lesley Gave More...
...compiling this 500,000-word chronicle, Historian Morison had the amiable notion of lacing the chapters with the appropriate music of each period. He starts off with an old Navajo war chant and the Salve Regina sung by the Spanish sailors bound for the New World. He ends, so many chants and prayers, hymns and ditties, marches and dirges later, with Camelot...
...this point people (some of them Lampoon members) began to chant absurd political slogans. The tenor of the rally thus far had not been even slightly serious and the political chants were not introduced in a serious vein. If one shouts "War! War! War!" in the same tone that he shouts "Here we go 'round the Mulberry bush" the obvious implication is that he is not to be taken seriously...
King called for more marches-on segregated schools, on poverty and "on ballot boxes until race baiters disappear from the political arena." He lifted the crowd to a peak with a rhythmic, almost hypnotic chant: "I know you are asking today, 'How long will it take?' I come to say to you this afternoon however difficult the moment, however frustrating the hour, it will not be long because truth pressed to earth will rise again. How long? Not long, because no lie can live forever. How long? Not long, because you still reap what you sow. How long...