Word: beene
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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an effort to ascertain whether any of us had been stricken down yet. I began to think it might be safer to avoid them.
With the temperature sinking down through the thirties, you'd have had to have been the most masochistic of liberals to have marched against death Friday night. Nonetheless, the liberals were out in force.
I decided to stay at the corner, because the whole block was already jammed with people, all kinds of people milling about, just as if we were all spectators at some great circus and the canvas was about to collapse all about us, but nobody quite knew how to panic...
For, by the time we reached Pennsylvania Avenue, all the birds had taken refuge in one particular tree where they were setting off a tremendous racket. Suddenly, the crowd, which until then had been chanting walk, walk, now began to yell to each other not to go under that tree...
Not quite sure what was now demanded of me, I just wandered around for some time. By six o'clock, troops had surrounded the White House, most bank windows had been broken, MPs were stationed at the major hotels to help satirized matrons into limousines, and a pall of gas...