Word: downe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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an effort to ascertain whether any of us had been stricken down yet. I began to think it might be safer to avoid them.
During that same time, someone had run down the American flag that flew in front of the Internal Revenue building and everyone cheered. Then, half a minute later, someone else ran the flag back up, and everyone cheered again.
Down on Constitution Avenue, the WSA demonstration against the Labor Department had already ended. I was sorry to have missed it, because my father works for the Labor Department, and the whole situation was just too Ocdipully-neat to pass up.
By the time I reached the Internal Revenue Building on the corner of 12th and Constitution, I could see that the gas had already begun a block further down at Justice.
Once the canisters of gas began flopping down between our feet, the crowd, without registering hardly any emotional response, began moving slowly but obediently up 12th Street. Up 12th, between the massive, dark blocks that were the buildings of Internal Revenue and Interstate Commerce. I kept getting these flashes of...