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Then bedlam. An argument broke out among the six judges. The Rumanian coach ranted. The crowd chanted Davidova's name and clapped in unison. A smaller Rumanian claque shouted "Nah-dee-yah! Nah-dee-yah!" Nadia stood motionless, arms akimbo, eyes far away. Twenty-eight minutes after her dismount, the scoreboard flashed the disheartening news: 9.85, only good enough for the silver...
Miller had to suffer good-natured abuse from teammates on the ride home who chanted in unison. "Three cheers for Lance Miller. Three cheers for Lance Miller. He would have been in it. If he'd broken a minute...
...their roles seeps through each line: Vladimir speaks in verse, though Estragon is the poet. McCue and Redford mimic so subtlely that only during the second act do we notice that they mirror each other's ideas and movements. Like silent film stars, they remove their bowlers in unison to scratch their heads...
...convention of mealtime. During the technological age, he notes on page 135 of his very thick book The Third Wave, "eating became technologized with the diffusion of forks and other specialized table implements." And every fall and spring, Toffler frets mightily at the ritual of standard time. "Periodically, in unison, as though motivated by a single will, millions of people set their clocks back or forward an hour, and whatever our inner, subjective sense of things may tell us when time is dragging, or conversely when it seems to be whizzing by, an hour is now a single, interchangeable, standardized...
...William Stewart, visiting the Rashidieh refugee camp in southern Lebanon, found 16 boys between the ages of eight and 16 engaged in a sort of small-arms training. Wrote Stewart: "They marched across a tiny parade ground, presented arms with mock Kalashnikov rifles and offered an openhanded salute. In unison, they broke into Biladi, Biladi (My Country, My Country), a patriotic song. The scene is repeated every day in this windswept corner of Rashidieh and in every camp in Lebanon. Ahmed Abu Karim, who teaches karate, says: 'We train them to believe we cannot lose more than we lost...