Word: bullhorns
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Sensing the growing emergency, assistant police chief Henry Lux, marching within 20 feet of King, lent his bullhorn to James Lawson. "This is Reverend Lawson speaking!" shouted the voice above the chaos. "I want everybody who's in the march, in the movement, to turn around and go back to the church." Lawson joined a heated debate in the middle of Main Street, surrounded by pleas for calm as well as battle cries of "Black Power!" and "Burn it down, baby!" King was torn between his pledge to shun violence and his promise never to abandon the movement faithful. Most...
...support for the janitors going into negotiations for a new contract. Several janitors were in attendance along with representatives from their union—Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 615—and members from various progressive groups. The protest also included local community leaders. Speaking from a bullhorn, Cambridge City Councillor Brian P. Murphy ’86-’87 declared, “This university is only as strong as it treats all of its workers.” While SLAM organizer Michael A. Gould-Wartofsky ’07 estimated that approximately 200 people...
...course, Bush has a history of floundering at the start of a crisis and then finding his voice. Handling Sept. 11 is now considered his finest hour, even though he stumbled dramatically at first. But last week offered no New York bullhorn moment. He can't threaten to get Katrina "dead or alive." The victims didn't need a photo-op gesture of reassurance so much as water, food and escape, plus help for the long haul. And for an Administration that has staked its reputation on fighting the war on terrorism, no one can be very encouraged...
...time Bush got back to the Oval Office that night to address the nation, his response had paled compared to that of Rudolph Giuliani. But Bush began to turn things around quickly, the next morning promising all-but-unlimited assistance to rebuild and culminating in his famed bullhorn remarks to rescue workers at Ground Zero on September...
While the day seemed magical, the activity was not unusual for Hwang, who has long explored similarly bizarre hobbies. Earlier this year you could find him sticking dozens of painted cardboard penguins in the grass outside the Science Center, or announcing, through a bullhorn, numbers from the endless sequence of pi. He recently hung a giant eye in his Canaday window overlooking Annenberg, and ominously thundered instructions at the people walking below. The threat was swiftly dealt with by Harvard University Police, who paid him a visit in his room and demanded he cease his activities immediately. Hwang began working...