Word: unison
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Listen! The London air is sweet with jubilation. Few cars this day, and no Klaxons in the central part of town. Just bells pealing gaily and the sound of horses prancing in unison along the Mall. A great fanfare of trumpets arises from Westminster Abbey, and the stirring chords of Elgar resound through the vaulted nave. Then a hush. Through the breath-held stillness, two voices ring out. "I will." "I will." And then a great roar from outside, and rising above the spellbound listeners, beautiful and light, an aria by Mozart, and then another...
...children gathered at his feet in front of the blackboard, where were written the words "DUTY TASK PERFORM" and several other related concepts. During the lesson, U Revata would read a phrase like, "The dog bit the man's toes" and then the children would chant it back in unison between 25 and 50 times: "Dogbit-man'stoesdogbitman'stoes...
...April of 1980, over 1000 undergraduates chanted the word "bullshit" in unison in response to the University's stand on divestment. Unlike the rosy picture drawn for the pleasure of administrators and distinguished alumns in the July 20 New York Times Magazine, many, both within and outside the institution have come to view it as, even more than most universities, merely a highly political (in the worst sense) bureaucracy. In this view, Harvard does not even seriously attempt to maintain high standards of integrity, ideological even-handedness in its faculty hiring, concern for the education and well-being...
...wife relaxed and even joked. At one point the former First Lady gently needled her husband. "You look like a clerk," she quipped when Marcos removed his jacket and vest in the sultry afternoon heat. "That's better than looking jobless," the ostracized couple then said in unison. Mrs. Marcos also hearkened back to her now infamous collection of shoes. "The maid assures me there were not 3,000 pairs," she said. She then summoned the woman, who dutifully testified that the First Lady's wardrobe included only 200 pairs of shoes. Mrs. Marcos revised the estimate upward: "Five hundred...
...choreography includes kicks, stag leaps and sharp arm movements that create a heavy, staccato feeling. This tone is compounded by the men's ability to dance in unison and in rhythm with the percussion that plays throughout. McKayle intersperses painful expressions of work in the chain gang--throwing fists into the air, clasping hands and stamping feet on the floor--with a flirtatious duet that lightens this somber piece that ends with a gunshot and a man's death...