Word: chants
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...choice protesters ring the pro-lifers, trying to cover them up with placards, so that the TV cameras register support for the clinics. The pro- choicers chant and demand the arrest of the pro-lifers: "Read 'em their rights, and take 'em away." Each group has its grisly signs -- aborted fetuses on one side, women's corpses bloody from illegal abortions on the other. It is a noisy scene, hymns vs. chanted slogans, with both sides resorting to bullhorns to get above the din (and the police finally adding their loudspeakers). The task of the police is first to detach...
...consolation game of the ECAC hockey championships at Boston Garden last month, a chant went up from the stands, taunting Cornell goaltender Corrie D'Alessio...
...Alessio!" some rowdy Harvard students yelled. "Your boyfriend called, and he says, you suck!" Five minutes later, the fans repeated the chant, adding an adverbial "Well...
...This chant used homosexuality as a stigmatized insult, hinging on the "macho" image spectators associate with male athletes. These spectators view homosexuality as the antithesis of masculinity, and--although they assumed that D'Alessio was not gay--chose to attack his athletic ability by questioning his heterosexuality...
...front shouted out, 'That's not what we're voting on!' The chant of Vote! Vote!!' went up again...