Word: unison
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...ride school buses, 3,000 do so for purposes of integration. Some 1,000 white mothers clutching preschool tots with I DON'T WANT TO BE BUSED placards recently marched on the board of education headquarters and dispersed only after reciting the Lord's Prayer in unison. The school superintendent, Dr. Alvin Morris, insists that "there is a national revolutionary group at work." "It's not a matter of racial prejudice," Mayor Enoch argues. "The blacks don't want to be bused either." Enoch goes on to say that breaking up residential segregation...
...some of the Princetonians seemed more interested in disruption than effective planning. Before the speech began, they handed out leaflets headlined HECKLE HICKEL, listing the shortcomings of the Secretary's record. "What about the oil?" they chanted in unison. "What about the Indians?" "What about the war?" They were not willing to listen to any answers-or to grant the Secretary his freedom of speech. In fact, they jeered so much that hardly anyone in the audience of 1,800 could hear Hickel say that improving the U.S. environment "will take a generation of men and women who will...
...night. To get to the front of the auditorium, I first had to be passed by the Gold Key Society into the first eight rows, which were, of course, reserved for the Social Committee. At the end of the concert, the audience stomped on the bleachers and clapped in unison for a second encore, but suddenly picked up their coats and left-just like at a basketball game...
...glad to pay those union dues," the farmer sings. "Just don't judge me by my shoes." But then comes the refrain. With Danko and Robertson on guitars, creating a controlled hush that is just the right rustling background, Manuel and Helm sing in low unison...
...From her he discovered he had a friend living in a double the House wanted to make into a triple. He begged on his knees for the friend and his roommate to take him in. In reply, they began taking off their clothes, throwing rotten fruit, and chanting in unison that if the House tried to give them a floater they'd drive him to University Health services within 48 hours...