Word: chantings
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...South Station area was converted into a sea of humanity...The crowd screamed: "The general. The general."...When he emerged from the rotunda into the street the throngs set a chant which was to echo all the way to Quincy and back again...
...ushers politely handling the overflow at a football stadium. But as darkness fell, some in the crowd got false courage from the night. They tossed firecrackers over police lines. Pressing forward inch by inch, the mob began to push the police back. From time to time the crowd would chant...
Shortly before 10 o'clock, the mob moved close enough to hit the apartment house with bricks and stones. The chant of "Go! Go! Go!", the firecrackers and the sound of breaking glass became a steady din. Then, just as the mob seemed to be getting out of hand, there was the sound of sirens down the street and a cry: "It's the Guard...
...lively. The rotating stage is decked out with a gay jumble of pagodas and minarets, Arab palaces and Venetian gondola landings. Costumes flash across the stage with colorful irrelevance: sultans look like Dalai Lamas, girls in Balkan skirts wiggle through Egyptian belly dances, men gotten up as Chinese coolies chant Viennese versions of Moslem music...
...days earlier at the party's 12th Street headquarters (less than two blocks from his town house). Judge Ryan demanded the names of the people who had put up the bail money, arguing that they might know where the four were. Field refused to answer, with the usual chant that it "might tend to incriminate me." Judge Ryan replied: "The witness is obligated to disclose the identity of people for whom he acted as trustee, because their disclosure may result in the arrest of the fugitives...