Word: hymning
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...announcers kept it up: "bulletins" described cities disintegrating, ships disappearing at sea, the world splitting wide open. From the Paris boulevards, an announcer brought the sound of French thousands wailing, screaming, praying. From Notre Dame Cathedral came hymn singing, organ music...
...amused, dismissed Claude Bourdet, new director general of French broadcasting. Also suspended was moonfaced Scriptwriter Jean Nocher, who complained: "I can't understand. I intentionally put all kinds of whoppers in it [so listeners would know it was a joke]. For instance, I made Catholics sing a Protestant hymn, Nearer, My God, to Thee...
...blackened stone houses lost in the darkness below, a single file of men tramped upward along a stony path. In sweet, mournful harmony they sang: "Guide me, O Thou great Redeemer, Pilgrim through this barren land. ..." For generations Welsh miners had gone to the pits singing the same hymn...
Died. Feliks Nowowiejski, 68, first-rank conductor and patriot composer of Poland's national hymn, Rota,* who was stricken in 1942, while a Nazi captive, with complete, permanent paralysis; in Poznan...
...arms. Newsmen, bored yet anxious, lounged on the chintz-covered sofas, listening for sounds from behind the guarded door. Occasionally there were voices, strident and angry; then long stretches of muffled buzz-buzz. Finally there came a burst of applause and then, to the tune of the Battle Hymn of the Republic, a full-throated rendition of Solidarity Forever...