Word: bullhorns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hoooooo, ready!" Parker called through his bullhorn, and suddenly the boats surged ahead, followed closely by the launch. Parker stood majestically in the bow, his white shirt flapping in the breeze, his chiseled profile silhouetted against the now blue sky. He held his head high and watched closely as the two boats sped forward glancing occasionally at the silver stopwatch he held in his hand...
Herbert Shaw, director of the Medical Information in the University News Office, said yesterday that although the professors had a bullhorn, they did not disturb the commencement proceedings...
...April 9, 1969, Franklin L. Ford, then Dean of the Faculty, was forced by members of SDS to leave his office in University Hall. Later that day, on the steps of Widener Library, Ford announced through a bullhorn that "in order to minimize the risk of any spread of violence, the Yard will be closed until further notice." Early the next morning. Cambridge and other police entered the Yard and forcibly ejected the 200 students occupying the building...
...building in Oakland. Peace marchers rallying in Washington, exhorted by Congresswoman Bella Abzug, Congressman-Priest Robert Drinan, Folk Singers Joan Baez and Pete Seeger. Demonstrators occupying the Minneapolis and Washington offices of Hubert Humphrey, temporarily seizing the South Vietnamese consulate in San Francisco. Senator Strom Thurmond bellowing through a bullhorn in support of the Saigon regime...
...closed in on the house and gently clicked off the safeties on their semiautomatic weapons. Curious neighbors wandered over, largely unimpeded, to see what was happening. Knots of people stood in their backyards, waiting for some Friday-night entertainment. Minutes later, a Los Angeles police sergeant flipped on his bullhorn and broadcast: "Come out with your hands up! The house is surrounded...