Word: unison
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...also thought Truman's directive poorly timed as it came out when the country's managing editors could protest in unison. Although he believes there is some politics involved in the A.M.E.'s protest, he feels that it is "conducting a useful campaign against suppression...
Twenty-five female legs will rise and fall in unison tonight when the second annual production of "Drumbeats and Song" opens at 8:30 p.m. in Sanders Theatre...
Behind it the 6:13 rushed closer & closer, its coaches performing a rattling dance upon their trucks, its crowded passengers and their upraised newspapers swaying in rhythmic unison. Its engineer, a 55-year-old railroader named Benjamin Pokorney, fled past a stop signal 3,516 feet from the stalled 6:09 at 60 miles an hour, apparently gambling (as other engineers have before him) that the track ahead would clear in time. He had only 850 feet of rails left when his headlight told him the terrible truth...
However, time after time we have watched the Freshmen start out waving their caps to the singing of the Red and Blue in unison with the rest of the students, only to wind up out of cadence. Now, it doesn't seem too much to ask men of college calibre to make a simple wig-wag motion with the arm in time with everybody else--especially with the cheer leaders standing right in front of them...
...such accomplishment, there was a big conference dinner. "At the end of the dinner," reports Sperry, "[the teachers] started repeating slogans to each other. It took me a few moments to catch on to what they were doing, but I finally understood: they were reciting slogans in unison. The toastmaster stood up and said, 'This conference here at Bryant Hill has been a rich experience. Yes sir, Bryant Hill, Conference, Rich Experience. Let's all say that together now.' In chorus the audience replied: 'Bryant Hill, Conference, Rich Experience...