Word: backings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...House rolled past Quincy to finish its season with a 2-4 record. Saba gave his team an early lead with an eight-yard run. Quincy tied the game on a 60-yard pass play. But Saba fell on a blocked punt in the end zone to put Adams back in the lead...
...eyes. It may be idiotic, but he really thinks he sees America. And, of course, we trust our own perceptions. What this means is very simple-there will be no more mass marches on Washington like the one last Saturday. If a half-million people ever come back to Washington the script will be a little different. Authority has become merely power, orphans will soon become Weathermen, and America will be in for a bad trip...
This walk meant a lot to us, so even when it started dismally, we didn't think of turning back. Over the bridge to Washington from Virginia, where Tinsley lived when that was his habit, the wind blew like hell and the name placard flapped around, twisting and turning. It gave up on that after a while and then just hung there doing nothing at all. And I froze on that bridge...
...lots of cops on my walk, but most of them were policemen and didn't seem sickened by me, my black arm band, my buttons, or the fact that because of people like me they were standing out there in the cold morning drizzle directing traffic. They smiled back and said "hi" back. And the marshals, freezing all along the route, were good people. Almost all the people were good ones, not rotten apples. But there were lots of not-so-good people sleeping, "ignoring" this childish demonstration...
After that, about 500 of us sat, stood, or lay down to wait for buses to come and take us back to the reception centers at various points in town. We were drained. Most of the people had gone directly to Arlington as soon as they had arrived in the city. People who had been riding in buses for hours had gone on this march through the cold drizzle...