Word: armbands
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...there's some kind of revolution going on at my university but all I can ever do is lie on my bed and listen to Nashville Skyline. I wear a red armband and read leaflets in the streets all so no one will know I am secretly humming peggy day, not the international. someone I know who used to listen to barbra streisand is now marching in nonobstructive picket lines, someone else I know is hiding in the bio labs drawing diagrams of insects till the fight is over. still and all I am keeping myself happy singing along with...
...Turco, wearing long hair and a red armband, lost a one-fall match to clean-cut Manuel Soto, delighting the crowd. Tony Marino downed the Black Demon with little trouble, but failed to unmask him, leaving the fans to wonder if he really is Frank Bellotti...
...Spiro Agnew's problems is simply candor. He is a blunt man with strong views, and he wants the world to know about them. Last week he told a Newsday columnist, Nick Thimmesch, that he had prevented his daughter Kim, 13, from marching and wearing a black armband on Moratorium Day. "She was unhappy about it for a day," Agnew said, "but she got over it. Parental-type power must be exercised...
Early Wednesday morning, Pat packed her children off to school and boarded the train to Mundelein, a Catholic girls' school run by the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. She entered Coffey Hall, picked up a black crape armband and some pamphlets in the lobby and went inside to sit down...
...Apocrypha--are not, I think, to be take as acid annotations on either the myth they illustrate or the times which produced their referant images. Rather they serve to make unexpectedly immediate a story which it may seem has been literally told to death. Not so long ago, the armband had brief life in this town as the visible emblem of a curious sort of self-election. When the disciple in Jesus make their first appearance, wearing their armbands, both they and our strike that was gain a little in dignity...