Word: half
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SAIGON-The nation-wide anti-war demonstration in the United States caused a ripple but apparently no waves Wednesday among the half-million American troops whose presence in South Vietnam was at issue in the Moratorium Day protest...
Associated Press photographer Charles Ryan said more than half of the 30 men in one American Division platoon wore the anti-war armbands and the platoon leader, 1st Lt. Jesse Rosen of New York City, told...
...crowd was so massive that many could not see the speakers' platform. The natural amphitheatre at the Beacon and Charles St. corner of the Common was jammed with demonstrators a half-hour before the speeches began at 3:40 p.m. And even when the speeches began, the last marchers had not yet reached the Common...
...Common was filled with posters, signs, many colors of armbands, and black balloons. Demonstrators had lowered the American flag to half-staff...
When I returned at noon to hand in my evaluation sheet to the canvass committee I had distributed about 50 leaflets explaining why the War should be opposed, I had had three doors slammed in my face. I had been told by a half a dozen people that they were already planning to go to the Cambridge Commons Rally, I had listened to another five people voice a sympathy with the rally but refuse to actively support it, and I found out that most people in Cambridge do not stay at home in the morning. I also felt a little...