Word: bullhorns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...events, Wilson takes command on the streets himself. When a few antiwar extremists refused to leave the Justice Department steps last November, he hurled the first canister of tear gas, then led his men in disciplined ranks down Constitution Avenue behind the fleeing protesters. Later, after Wilson used his bullhorn to order an unruly crowd from DuPont Circle, a middle-aged woman who lived near by asked why he did not use more force. Said Wilson: "Madam, before I answer your question, let me ask you one: Are you prepared to be arrested? I just ordered this area cleared...
Amid cheers and catcalls, Mrs. Graham then sent for a bullhorn and used it to tell the audience, "We have nothing to lose and we are going to stay here until the microphone is turned...
...nosed into the riverbank, opened its bow doors and disgorged its human cargo at Hong Ngu. The Vietnamese were greeted by a white-shirted bureaucrat who shouted instructions over a bullhorn. There were tables stacked with forms to fill out and, near by, a tent city to shelter the refugees for the two weeks or so that will be needed to screen and begin relocating them...
...forty others who were obstructing Dean May during the painters' helpers struggle. All four were active leaders of SDS. Less than a month later, four active members of NAC received the brunt of the CRR's discipline for "intensely and personally harrassing Dean May," who was speaking through a bullhorn to OBU occupants of University Hall. Scores of lesser-known radicals also took part in that harrassment...
...Dean May arrived with a bullhorn and read the warning statement three times, at different points around the building...