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...bending a taster spoon between my teeth, I snap and catapult it at Nancy. It smacks into the back of her neck and she jerks forward into the spray hose hanging next to the smoosh board. Its handle depresses, drenching her leg with water. "Hose-shot, hose-shot!" I chant, dancing triumphantly out of her reach. The waist high smoosh-hose is a chronic problem for scoopers, whose rushes to the board often leave them looking incontinent. Nancy sends a confetti cloud of powdered Reeses at my head...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Primal 'Scream | 3/5/1987 | See Source »

...honor of the first night of the 1987 Eastern Championships, each wore a Japanese headband and marched in to battle uttering a shogun war chant...

Author: By Joseph Kaufman, | Title: Aquawomen Hold Second in Easterns Set to Challenge Brown For Crown | 2/27/1987 | See Source »

There is also no question that students if they feel strongly enough, should gather outside Science Center B with placards and chant so Mr. Coors understands that most members of the Harvard community disapprove of what he stands...

Author: By Matthew H. Joseph, | Title: CAMPUS CRITIC | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

...late afternoon the 10,000 protesters, some armed with iron rods and wooden clubs with nails protruding, began advancing on the bridge. As Jaime Tadeo, a leftist peasant leader, shouted, "Charge Malacanang! Break down the barricades!" and his followers returned a chant of "Revolution! Revolution!," the protesters closed with the security forces. At first the policemen held their ground, but as the crowd pushed forward amid a hail of stones, the police lines began wavering. Frantic police officers shouted, "You can't go through." Tadeo, struggling in the front lines, yelled back, "We're going to Malacanang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines Death In Manila | 2/2/1987 | See Source »

...Sorrow and the Pity, Marcel Ophuls' documentary of the French Occupation, the novel's barrage of impressions and opinions assaults, even implicates, the reader. Derisive voices chant an anti-Vichy song. A housewife prepares makeshift tea out of water and carrot tops. The odor of filth rises from the streets. Meanwhile, the heated voices of a cautious bourgeois and a young radical debate questions that offer no moral answers...

Author: By Jane Avrich, | Title: Tales From a Dubious Wonderland | 1/14/1987 | See Source »

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