Word: singsongs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Bevan to the Tredegar Aid Society: "I believe that orthopedic surgery can be of great benefit to many miners and I would fight all the doctors of the British Medical Association to prove my point." Or he would cry in his Welsh singsong: "If a specialist is away in Bristol, why should we not be able to send our men to him? Why should not a miner have the right to the best treatment...
...RIAS microphone by way of dancing school, a Nazi concentration camp and postwar German cabarets. Christina comes on the air pretending to be a newsboy, hawking the day's headlines in rhymes which frequently poke fun at the Communists. Her most popular tagline, delivered in a knowing, childish singsong, comes at the end of her report of any pompous Communist proclamation: "Das versteh' ich nicht," she says wonderingly, "das versteh' ich wirklich nicht! [That I don't understand, that I really don't understand!]." Throughout the Soviet zone, her phrase appears morning after morning scribbled...
When safely out of earshot of Russia's secret police, Russia's patient, long-suffering peasants fitted new words to an ancient singsong tune: If there were no winter...
...Chance of a Lifetime." It was not with a bang, but with a wheedle, that Britain's Prime Minister asked his nation to face her crisis. In a high, flat, singsong voice, he recited cliche after cliche. Now & then he wrung his hands gently. Some M.P.s fell asleep, others drifted out of the Chamber (making polite bows to the Speaker) for a chat or cigaret...
...When the singsong voice stopped, after one hour and 15 minutes, Attlee (whom Churchill once called "a sheep in sheep's clothing") had convinced few Britons that his Socialist Government was ready resolutely to make up for past mistakes. Attlee "touches nothing," said the Economist acidly, "that he does not dehydrate...