Word: dayes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Superior Court Justice Robert Sullivan, who presided over the two-day trial, said he would pass sentence on Offner this morning at 10 a. m., and ordered him held in custody overnight in the Middlesex County House of Correction in Billerica...
...next day the feeling of futility and senselessness was again present. But it died quickly as we marched up the avenue and sat around the monument. There were so many people of all ages, sizes, shapes and colors. One sign read "You have finally brought us together, Dick." At the monument the speeches were dull, the air was icy, and the songs fell flat. We built fires with the AFL-CIO banners. No fools, those workers, they brought wooden sticks with their placards. A little of what made Woodstock a legend made life bearable at the monument...
...FLOW. Like the October Moratorium in Boston, the next day's march was fluid-not a march, but a flow, with its own inner currents. Unlike the October march, it was joyous. Even some of the policemen were smiling. The sun was shining, the air was crisp. We chanted some, just to let Washington know. And we sang, because we wanted to. Some of my Harvard friends started the refrain of "Alice's Restaurant," and a few other people joined in. Every now and then an enchanting little tune wound its way down the line: "Oh, what a lovely thing...
...most of the time, I wasn't thinking about who was good and who was bad. I was thinking about my quiet companion. When Tinsley got out of bed on whatever day it happened, did he think that he might he might be killed before he might sleep again? Did it happen quickly or did he have time to lie there and think how rotten it all was? Was it a hand grenade, a shelling, a bullet, a knife? What put Tinsley around my neck...
...Nixon was awake the day before, and he would be awake later on, and he would know that all that time that he slept, people walked by his house shouting the name of a dead man every two seconds. And how warm does he feel inside when he knows that he is being assigned responsibility for a lot of those names and for those to die later? How human is he if he tries to convince the public that this type of thing is to be ignored? Tinsley and I wondered why Nixon wanted us to think that his death...