Word: brawniest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Callused hands gripped tiny U.S. flags. Weathered faces shone with sweat under the midday sun. For three hours, 100,000 members of New York's brawniest unions marched and shouted, milled and sang in a massive display of gleeful patriotism and muscular pride. Basking in the ticker-tape approval of cheering office workers crowding high windows in buildings many of DAVID BURNETT them had helped erect beam by beam and load by load, the hardhatted construction workers, teamsters and longshoremen rallied through the streets of Lower Manhattan in probably the biggest pro-Government rally since the Viet...