Word: bullhorns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Heart. Through the year, whether he was hoisting his beagles by the ears, bellowing through a bullhorn to invite campaign crowds to "a speakin','' or roaring along a Texas road holding his five-gallon hat over the speedometer, Johnson made colorful copy and was copiously covered. Even when fear of getting too much news exposure induced him to try to get away from it all-as when he took a powerboat trip on Granite Shoals Lake last July-newsmen pursued him on foot, by boat and by plane, and photographers zeroed in from afar with telescopic lenses...
...various times, the President sucked on gumdrops to ease a hoarse throat, threw a high school band off key by marching into its midst to autograph the bass drum and led his own cheers with the help of a bullhorn, crying: "All the way with L.B.J...
...chances, and last week he was campaigning as though he actually feared defeat. He whirled through five New England states on a prop-stopping speaking trip, and the wild crowds nearly tore him apart. Everywhere he went, he halted his motorcade, made impromptu speeches through a hand-held bullhorn, bounded out of his car to press the outstretched hands of crushing mobs. At Providence, R.I., he embraced ex-Senator Theodore Francis Green, now 97, invited him to spend the night at the White House for the inauguration...
...Secret Invasion. "Achtung!" One misty midnight in the fall of 1943, the glare of a flare illuminates a tiny trawler wallowing off the coast of Yugoslavia. "Wer geht da?" the captain of a German patrol boat bellows in his bullhorn...
Negro Leader Stanley Branche stood on a box at a street corner, used a bullhorn to plead: "Please go home. Please go home. This is doing us no good." The mob answered with hoots, threw stones, bricks and bottles at him, hit him in the leg. Philadelphia N.A.A.C.P. President Cecil Moore shouted: "Come out of that store! Quit looting that store!" A woman climbed atop an overturned refrigerator to yell: "Black man, do you hear me? Cecil has nothing to tell you. I'm a black woman. Let them take...