Word: backings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second week in a row and the third time in six weeks, the Ivy League Back of the Week earned that distinction in a win over Harvard. Junior quarterback Chris Burgess, starting in his second game, was given the honor after Brown's 24-17 upset of the Crimson Saturday in Providence...
...seems strange, looking back on it, that the Washington cops should seem different to me from other cops. The night before the Saturday march I was gassed seven times in Dupont Circle, and I had two more encounters with the green stuff later Saturday afternoon. I had been gassed in Chicago; there I hated the cops with every ounce of passion I could muster. I still...
...next night was the night for revolution. It was pretty impressive charging up Massachusetts Avenue with 2,000 people behind Vict Cong flags. It was pretty depressing when those same 2,000 people were sent fleeing back down the street with artificial tears in their eyes. After the first charge the feeling of danger was gone. You went back for more gas, teared for five or ten minutes and then went back for more. It was insane...
...miles up the Baltimore-Washington Expressway, we overtook a lone Army truck. The three soldiers in the back were shooting peace signs at everyone who passed. We traded signs with them. Then one of my friends, who was sitting in the right front seat, grabbed a handful of lollipops and leaned way out the window-we were going 50 miles an hour-and handed them to one of the soldiers. We dropped back a bit. As we approached again, the soldier proffered his hat: we pulled up close and accepted it. We fell behind again. My friend asked the soldiers...
After I got back to the reception center, I sat, dozed, talked, and ate a cheese sandwich until 8 a. m., when I got a ride to Frank's, where I was staying. As I crawled into my sleeping bag I felt good, and a bit self-righteous. Then I remembered that Tinsley Bryant was still dead...