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Word: crowds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Down Commonwealth Avenue a crowd of 100,000 converged on the Boston Common. They were mostly students, but mothers from Newton and Wellesley walked among them, their children wearing black M-day armbands or clutching helium-filled black balloons. From a bar, a man hollered: "Bums! Do they think of the guys who died on Guadalcanal?" Halfway across the nation in front of the Forest Park (Ill.) Selective Service office, miniskirted girls from nearby Rosary College were reciting the names of the Illinois war dead; two elderly clerks inside went on with their work, paying little attention. San Francisco State...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: KALEIDOSCOPE OF DISSENT | 10/24/1969 | See Source »

...should contact one," she said. "It would be much cheaper for him all around." Ewa had previously objected to two "superfluous" skin bits in the Spanish western, one a bed scene with Jim Brown and the other a nude-at-the-window scene in front of a large crowd. "I don't object to nudity," she explained. "I object to crudity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 24, 1969 | 10/24/1969 | See Source »

BROWN'S Moratorium crowd spans a spectrum that includes the student radicals on its left and disgruntled older voters who are speaking out against the war for the first time on its right. The Washington march splits them down the middle...

Author: By Scott W. Jacobs, | Title: Brass Tacks Sam Brown's Blues | 10/23/1969 | See Source »

Right about then, a squat, bull-necked dude, wild with drink, began elbowing his way through the crowd, bellowing for another Schlitz. He seemed to be the type that sends floral bouquets to funerals with the inscription "I AM VERY SORRY THAT IT HAD TO COME TO THIS" written on them. I loved the man, for I knew that he would provide the story. I had spent a lifetime waiting to write...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Powers of the Press | 10/21/1969 | See Source »

...remainder of the Cornell squad is not quite equal to Alexandridis caliber but the Big Red has other advantages. At Ithaca, Cornell always draws a large partisan crowd that can create team momentum from the sidelines...

Author: By Robert W. Gerlach, | Title: Varsity Booters Oppose Cornell Today; Coach Munro Prefers Role of Underdog | 10/18/1969 | See Source »

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