Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lacrosse vs. Lincoln-Sudbury...
Walking over to Lincoln Park Wednesday night. I stop at a liquor store, buy a bottle of beer, and ask for an opener. I know what the Weather Bureau has got planned for tonight. Earlier, at the briefing at the Michigan Washington-New-England-and-New-York-State movement headquarters, they told us that that after the speeches we were going to march through the city. The police would try to stop us. Police make me very uneasy. The beer fails to make me the least bit high...
...Lincoln Park the turnout for this, the first demonstration, is very small. About 300 people are gathered around a bonfire fueled by park benches. Another 200 newspapermen and spectators stand around the edges. It is very sad. They had announced 1500 would show, and were really expecting 800. It is undeniably terrible when any left political movement turns out to have far less support than it needs, when the people you thought you had won don't care to show...
...find them going north on Astor Street back up toward Lincoln Park. They seem to have been travelling in S-type patterns, constantly changing their direction to avoid the police...
...determined, skilled President who captures a nation's imagination, energy and know-how can work miracles. Abraham Lincoln understood the enormous strength of American industry even while the country was being torn apart by the Civil War. He unleashed that force to build a railroad to the Pacific. Eighteen hundred miles of track were flung across prairies and mountains in four years...