Word: chants
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...fight began, there was little in action or tactics to suggest the startling turnabout to come. Beneath a full moon in Kinshasa at 4 a.m. (the better for prime-time closed-circuit TV viewing in the U.S.), Ali led a crowd of almost 60,000 Zairians in a chant of "Ali boma ye!" (Ali, kill him) before he began to dance round the ring, dodging Foreman's powerful swings. It was just as the experts and even the boxers themselves had predicted: the bear was chasing...
...every prison in which Davis was held during her 22 months behind bars her fellow inmates risked solitary confinement and other punishments to show their support for her; thousands gathered outside of the jails in which she was held to chant, "Free Angela Davis"; each time she was moved or brought into court throngs of supporters turned out to demonstrate for her; letters poured into the courts and California officials' offices whenever visitors reported that she was being ill-fed or mistreated by the prison staff. There is no doubt that this tremendous support and the publicity it brought Davis...
...temporarily placed aside. A viewing of the movie could only have encouraged it. There was no danger presented by the audience--no one was about to rush out at the film's conclusion to smash school bus windows with ax handles. Instead of analysis, there was a miscalculated victory chant for the demonstrators, and bitterness for those who had come to see the movie...
...fickle spectator is still not happy, and the cry for change is heard around the nation once more: "Change baseball some more," angry mobs of people chant, pleading for more lifegiving reform to be injected into the dying sport...
Outside a flock of white caps roamed the Veterans Stadium steps. A few hawkers occasionally chant "Don't buy food" to the passing latecomers...