Word: unison
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...it’s the assistant whose eyes dart in confusion, not sure what to make of his boss’s impulsive streak. In unison, we agree. We’re whisked out and down the steps with the Jackson entourage. As we’re guided to a slick new silver Benz left idling by the church’s curb, we discover that Jesse shares our optimistic view of traffic police generosity...
...Once firearms arrived, "Europe, far more easily than other cultures, was able to convert ranks of spearmen" into deadly infantrymen. They "fired as they had stabbed?in unison, on command, shoulder to shoulder and in rank." From this flowed astonishing Western military feats: Hernan CortEs' 1,600 men slaughtering more than one million Aztecs (1519-21); a Christian fleet's crushing of a larger Ottoman Muslim armada at Lepanto (1571) and the creation of an empire on four continents by a British army that in 1879 had only...
...first and second alarms sounded in unison at 8:47 at firehouses across lower Manhattan. The third was transmitted at 8:48 as a 10-60, code for a major emergency. No fourth alarm was necessary; at 8:56 the blaze was upgraded to a five-alarm fire. Because the night tour was just then being relieved, two shifts of men were milling around most firehouses, bantering about the morning's headlines (AIR WE GO AGAIN, blared the New York Post about Michael Jordan's comeback) and the previous evening's calls. That meant that double the men were...
...Surfacing,” a song which they claim is the “new national anthem” for their fans (whom they’ve affectionately dubbed “the maggots”). The track found the near-capacity Centrum crowd screaming in unison, from the front of the pit to the upperdeck seats, “Fuck you all / Fuck this world / Fuck everything that you stand for / Don’t belong / Don’t exist / Don’t give a shit / Don’t ever judge me!” This...
...home-church movement that helped Christianity survive communist repression. Yet as Little Flock congregations became isolated, they splintered into separate groups. The Shouters, for instance, rewrote the Lord's Prayer to read simply, "Oh, Lord Jesus," and taught followers to holler the phrase while stamping their feet in unison. Other offshoots, like the Disciples, believe that the devil exists in all people?and can be beaten out of them...