Word: chorus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days, Bao Dai's favorite sport (in addition to chasing chorus girls) was tracking down tigers, elephants and gaur (fierce wild buffalo) on foot through the jungle. That took intelligence and guts. Both traits are needed in the fierce jungle of Viet Namese politics, and Bao Dai is displaying both. The Communist radio had predicted that he would be assassinated; the French authorities were so concerned that at public ceremonies they kept the crowds 100 yards from His Majesty and gave him an armored car. But Bao Dai scorned such protection. At Hanoi, which he proclaimed his capital...
That was two years ago. The Texas and Pacific's 34-voice chorus sang it, but Tennessee authorities refused to spring Composer Grandstaff long enough to come and hear it. Last week, with a head of pressure built up for a centennial celebration, Big Spring was doing better by its favorite composer...
Germany took its first steps in parliamentary government since Adolf Hitler reduced the old Reichstag to the status of a servile operatic chorus. The voice of the new Federal Republic's Bundestag last week was vigorous, sometimes shrill; in their new-found freedom of debate, the Germans missed few tricks...
...gallant song of the Foreign Legion, Le Fanion de la Légion. By the time she had gotten through her prayerful Bonjour Monsieur Saint-Pierre and the piquant one that Piaf partisans will walk miles to hear -her own composition, La Vie en Rose, this time with a chorus in English-the fans were pounding their hands...
...after listening to one bureau confess a mistake, economists and businessmen raised their eyebrows at the Bureau of the Census, whose optimistic employment estimates for August (51,400,000) had set off a hallelujah chorus of hope for a big upturn. The Bureau of the Census coldly replied that it was not in error, pointed out that it uses a different computing method, and that it includes several types of employment not covered...