Word: choiring
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...Teddy bears, covered over with Piltdown hair. The one word that teen-agers use over and over to describe them is "differ ent." They are different not only because they all grope around under four years' growth of hair. They are different because they are as wholesome as choir boys. They only stand and sing. In a mass of misses, they only bring out the mother...
...Adolf Hitler: he returns to Vienna to talk sense to Cardinal Innitzer (the real-life churchman who welcomed Naziism to Austria prior to the Anschluss of 1938). The episode ends ludicrously: as Brownshirts riot around Innitzer's palace, Soprano Wilma Lipp and 200 members of the Wiener Jeunesse Choir huddle primly in the plaza, singing Mozart's Alleluia without skipping a half note. Will miracles never cease...
...Special Forces, wearing the green beret distinctive of those guerrilla warfare specialists, be included among the honor guard. Because of Jack's love of the Navy, she requested that the Navy hymn be played as the casket was carried up the Capitol steps. She invited the Navy Choir and Tenor Luigi Vena, who had sung at her wedding, to sing at the cathedral. Recalling that Jack had recently marveled at an exhibition by Britain's Royal Highland "Black Watch" Regiment at the White House, had enjoyed Ireland's "Irish Guards" on his trip abroad last June...
...preach well. Churches that offer impressive material as well as spiritual benefits set their standards higher. Everybody seems to want a nondrinking, tolerant intellectual who does not talk down to his flock-a man who is not too young, not too old, who is interested in the choir, is good at raising money, and who has a charming but unobtrusive wife...
...campaign cry had been to "get America moving again." Now, for 1964, it was to "make a strong America stronger." His listeners seemed to respond. That night, in the giant, timbered Mormon Tabernacle in Salt Lake City, after a stirring delivery of America the Beautiful by the Mormon choir, John Kennedy delivered what might be called his first major campaign address for next year's presidential election...