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Word: hummed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...street below. The chemistry of the evening had touched and stimulated him, and he was anxious to get back among the crowds that filled the streets. As his motorcade started for the Portland stadium, the mood heightened. There was a tang of September in the Maine air. The low hum of excited people rose from the four-deep throngs along his route, burst into cheering as Jack Kennedy passed by. The glow of old-fashioned torches, hand-crayoned signs (I'D WALK A MILE FOR JACK) and chants from the youngsters ("Never fear, Jack is here") gave the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: The Campaign Spell | 9/12/1960 | See Source »

...position that he would respect my feelings in the matter.") Then the discussion moved on to agreement and disagreement on issues. While the two men were working out the substance of the agreement, Rocky's Press Secretary McManus, who had hurriedly flown in from Chicago, kept up a hum of telephone consultation with Rockefeller staffers in Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: The Bold Stroke | 8/1/1960 | See Source »

Though intramural competition is intense, the clan swarm like bees around a queen when one member makes a louder hum than the others. Thus, when Teddy was a brawny end at Harvard, every Kennedy became an expert football coach and traveled in T-formation to Cambridge on autumn Saturdays to watch him play. In Bobby's heyday as the grand inquisitor of the Senate McClellan committee, when he was making Jimmy Hoffa squirm, the clan became totally absorbed in the investigation, discussed it over every dinner table and every long-distance telephone call and beat a path...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAMPAIGN: Pride of the Clan | 7/11/1960 | See Source »

...squatting students hurled themselves forward. They beat on the car with fists and poles, hammered its body and kicked the locked doors. Glass cracked in the windshield. The mob began rocking the car in rhythmic time to a chant of "Go hoh-mu, Ha-gachee!" or "Yan-kee. go hum!" Thousands of other students who had been snake-dancing and marching near by rushed to join in. A Socialist member of Parliament, wearing a red sash, looked on approvingly from the sidelines and puffed at a cigarette...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Ordeal by Mob | 6/20/1960 | See Source »

...pleased, however, to know that the hum is universal and not just a product of my New England neighborhood. Misery loves company. MRS. ROBERT ZABARSKY New London, Conn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 13, 1960 | 6/13/1960 | See Source »

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