Word: chantings
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There have been errors, for example, both in judgment and accuracy. Every Crimed knows the worst ones by heart and can reel them off as a hopeful chant against future mistakes. But for every misquote or proofing back, back are countless bright sports: the extra editions when a president resigns and when his successor is chosen; the announcement that, for the fifth straight year, the paper has won the Dana Reed prize for undergraduate writing; or perhaps, just the daily satisfaction is watching a paper materialize--sometimes as a weak paper, sometimes a strong one, but always a newspaper...
...Victor Hugo fattened the legend in his play, Lucrezia Borgia, in which Lucrezia poisons a roomful of banqueters only to discover that her lovechild, Gennaro, is among them. Unappreciatively, Gennaro stabs her, to the accompaniment of Latin plain chant, as monks arrive with coffins for all. This imaginary incident made such a good spectacle that Donizetti wrote an opera around it. *The Florentine Ambassador Machiavelli met Cesare in the course of diplomatic business, was so taken with Cesare's forthright approach that he used him as an exemplar of the successful ruler in the famed treatise, The Prince...
...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...