Word: unison
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First of all Tokyo newspapers broke into one of their unison chants. One thing which must not happen, they said, is "military action by powers threatening The Netherlands Indies ... or even temporary protective measures." Japan would protect the islands from such protection...
Librarians of Harvard, M. I. T. and Radcliffe shuddered in unison as they thought of the thousands of books and maps they might have to mutilate. Libertarians shuddered for the newspapers they might not be permitted to read. In Chicago, the conventioning American Library Association cried: "The Cambridge action is a blow to democracy and an infringe ment on the freedom of the press...
...this protozoic cheering-either a "short Harvard cheer" or a "long Harvard cheer." At the University of Southern California, prim-collared professors directed the yells. Minnesota was one of the first colleges to elect a "yell marshal." His whole duty was to get the spectators to recite in unison, "Rah-rah-rah, Ski-u-mah, Minn...
...Standardbred, result of cross-breeding of Thoroughbred stallions and rugged Cannuck mares, was developed to answer the late-18th Century demand for a "fast-walking" horse to pull the rich man's buggy. A pacer moves both right legs and both left legs in unison. A trotter moves its right front leg and left hind leg in unison. Of the 10,000 Standardbred racers on U. S. tracks, 70% are trotters, 30% pacers...
...masses and mass meetings, chants and cheers for Francisco Franco; all over Spain there were uniforms-the khaki of the regular Army, red berets and blue shirts of the Falangists; white blouses and blue skirts of the Auxilio Social. Uniforms on an individualistic people, children marching and chanting in unison the Falangist slogan "Produce! Produce! Produce!" Madrid workmen, traditional Leftists, parading with hammers, wrenches, shovels, trowels, to show their respective trades-all this said that the old Spain was dead, dead as the 400,000 militiamen who were killed trying to keep its present Government from coming into power...