Word: footings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Indira was probably happy to be rid of the conservative bosses, whom she blames for the party's decline. "The people are clamoring for a faster pace," she said recently. "Congress has not been keeping pace with the changing times and the new generation." Free of the foot dragging of the Syndicate, which is composed largely of aging men, Indira now has the opportunity to mold the party into a more attractive-and constructive-political force...
...Near the foot of the bridge where the march proper began, a bell tolled every few seconds. A couple of kids, wrapped in blankets and sleeping bags and asking everyone they saw if they had a joint, took turns ringing the bell. We helped them for a few minutes. The bell's clang seemed to affirm the primitive purity of the whole effort. For an army was encamped by the bank of the Potomac, an army silent and cold and dark, waiting for the dawn to plunge its incongruous, unarmed infantry into some kind of crazy civil war battle...
...announced that students who continued to demonstrate obstructively would be subject to disciplinary action and prosecution for trespass, and ordered all non-University demonstrators to leave immediately or face criminal trespass charges. Although May spoke to the crowd through a bull-horn, continual chanting, clapping, and foot-stamping at times drowned out his statement...
Another Hornblower fumble on the next series gave Brown possession near midfield, and in eight plays, it scored again, with Jim Hughes diving over from one foot away. With time running out. Harvard began to move but Bruin Dave Chenault intercepted a Crimson option pass on the Brown 16 to kill one threat. When Gary Farneti mishandled a blocked Brown punt moments later, he killed the other...
Under a clear sky and in a cold, brisk wind, the mass of people-estimated at from 250,000 to 500,000- marched fourteen long blocks from the foot of the Capitol to the grassy hill beneath the Washington Monument. The marchers, predominantly under 30, packed Pennsylvania Avenue for three and a half hours and nearly filled the 30-acre hill...