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When Tito drives through the streets of Belgrade in a bullet-proof car, accompanied by tanks and four truckloads of soldiers, crowds yell: "Tito, Ti-to!" (to the familiar rhythm of "Duce, Du-ce!"). Children chant: "Kral se zenio, Tito se borio" ("The King married, Tito fought"). Ancient ballads praising ex-King Peter's ancestor (Kara George, a prominent Serbian hero and hog farmer) are changed to fit Tito. Sample...
...maggoty toilets, he forced them to lick clean their fouled shoe soles. At other times he lined up a handful of U.S. officers, ordered U.S. enlisted men to go down the line, punching each officer in the face, while he stood there crying, "Next, next" until it became a chant that haunted prisoners' dreams...
...Real Task." In a moment, outside in Pennsylvania Avenue, there was a roaring chant: "We want Truman!" The President quickly obliged. He and Mrs. Truman went out to the columned portico, then down the green lawn to within 25 feet of the shouting thousands behind the iron fence and the row of MPs who brought their bayoneted rifles to port arms...
...coasted on to the River Street Bridge. Thinking that was the finish line, the Harvards rested on their oars. In the confusion, the Radcliffers pulled ahead to the white marker, 50 yards away, but still thought they had lost and began the traditional peeling of shirts to the chant: "Take 'em off, take 'em off!" With great foresight, they had worn two shirts apiece...
...voice sounded youthful; it also sounded as though its owner could smile. His voice was shallow, occasionally flat, and pitched a little too high for comfort (he lowered the pitch for his second broadcast). The President tended to chant his carefully enunciated phrases by syllables-one, two, three, four; one, two, three, four. His pronunciations had Missouri and Midwest antecedents: "entire"' was "ENtire...