Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...used to chide Anderson about how he could have delivered the Gettysburg Address, if Lincoln's text had been placed in front...
...MAMA, WHERE are you?" the little girl squealed as she struggled to hold on to an oversized poster of Martin Luther King, Jr. and keep up with the crowd marching to the Lincoln Memorial in the 96 degree heat of the Capital Mall August...
...outdated answers don't define the Left. Persisting questions do. Over and over again those questions found voice at the Lincoln Memorial in an ever-growing community of discontent. And there was a new urgency in those voices, drawing not from extremism but from legitimacy: "Vote 84," read an old man's crudely-lettered sign. "Reagan must be stop. THE MAN IS SICK." Only 20 years after the 1963 march, this man could cast himself as the conserves, and a Republican as a radical fanatic. There is confidence in his assertion, a sense of political entitlement, hard...
...many Americans, it remains one of the incandescent moments in living memory. Facing a throng of 250,000 on the capital Mall, with the Washington Monument soaring before him and the white marble figure of Abraham Lincoln brooding behind him, Martin Luther King Jr. turned mere spectacle into a kind of national epiphany. "I have a dream today," he declared. And again, "I have a dream today." And again. He used the words as more than refrain, more than cadence, almost as biblical exhortation. And as his listeners cheered him more loudly each time he repeated them, King built toward...
Personal testimony indicates that any female, regardless of class or race, can become a battered wife. In Stamford, Conn., a woman married to a Fortune 500 executive locked herself into their Lincoln Continental every Saturday night to escape her husband's kicks and punches. She did not leave him because she mistakenly feared he could sue for divorce on ground of desertion and she, otherwise penniless, would get no alimony...