Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...White House Christmas cheer, there was only one discordant incident. As the President prepared to turn on the 5,000 lights decorating the big national Christmas tree in the Ellipse, he declared: "May this moment be one when America looked forward to a decade in which Americans could enjoy Christmas at peace with all the countries of the world." Antiwar demonstrators in front of the tree raised an antiphonal chant. "Peace now!" said the protesters, who call themselves "the Washington Area Grinch Resistance" after the character in the Dr. Seuss story, How the Grinch Stole Christmas. "Stop the war!" they...
...leaving Kampala's Lugogo Stadium, where his ruling People's Congress had just approved his "Common Man's Charter," which was designed to turn his country into a socialist one-party state. While the army band blared out the party song, "Uganda Is Marching Forward," three shots rang out. Obote, 44, a onetime herdboy who led his country (pop. 8,000,000) to independence seven years ago, clutched his head and fell. In the crowd, women moaned and groveled on the ground, and party officials beat the air in rage...
INTERVIEWER: Mr. Coward, you've referred to the days of festivity surrounding your 70th birthday as "Holy Week." Are you looking forward...
Bruce S. Kahn, a second year Law student, said that the demonstrators appeared in the back of the class at the beginning of the period, "After about 20 minutes they began to drift forward, passing out bread and Christmas candy and saying 'Merry Christmas Richard Kleindienst and Spiro Agnew.' They completely ignored Cox the whole time," he said...
...PICK-UP approached, and we turned and stuck out our thumbs. I thought it would stop and apparently the girl did, too, because when it did go by, she ran a few steps after it, leaned forward and squinted her eyes, and returned, "You see," she said. "I just killed them." The pick-up faded in the distance. "I can do that cause I'm a witch...