Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crowd was so massive that many could not see the speakers' platform. The natural amphitheatre at the Beacon and Charles St. corner of the Common was jammed with demonstrators a half-hour before the speeches began at 3:40 p.m. And even when the speeches began, the last marchers had not yet reached the Common...
...ROBERT H. EBERT, Dean of the Medical School, was on a street corner in downtown Boston for three hours handing out postcards with a group of anti-war doctors. Ebert said that a large number of Med School faculty and students helped give out the postcards, which ask President Nixon to withdraw American troops. By the end of the day, the doctors had handed out more than 100,000 cards...
...Back in there," and he pointed to a shiny red door at the back corner of the store...
...started working as an intern for Senator Charles E. Goodell in June, I was less than enthusiastic. All I knew was that he had been appointed by Governor Rockefeller to finish the last year and a half of Bobby Kennedy's Senate term. He was from some strange corner of New York State, and the upstate Republican regulars hadn't complained when he was appointed. I was vaguely disappointed that he wasn't Javits, who seemed more exciting...
...Weathermen began gathering in one corner of Haymarket Square around noon. Before the march started, however, plain clothed policemen filtered into the crowd and seized five Weathermen leaders, including Mark Rudd, national secretary, who was making his first public appearance during the disturbances...