Word: march
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During the school desegregation controversy, Boston Archbishop John Cardinal Cushing prevailed to pressure from pro-busing advocates, and tried to appeal to Hicks, a devout Catholic, to cease her crusade. Cushing told Hicks he had been asked to to march in protest with a group of Blacks in front of the Boston School Committee headquarters. According to Hicks, she said to the Cardinal, "Why don't you do that, Your Eminence, then come upstairs and receive my resignation...
Instead, Dukakis' popularity in Massachusetts has plummeted since his presidential bid began, and the Republican Party has used this to their advantage to begin their long march back to political legitimacy...
When Dukakis announced his presidential bid in March 1987, he credited his support. In a speech aimed at Massachusetts residents he said: "It has been your successes, your values, your support and what we have achieved together that has given me this opportunity...
From Levittown, Dukakis went to midtown Manhattan to march in the annual Columbus Day parade...
...Bill of Rights -- often require that even its supporters hold their noses. The A.C.L.U. has made enemies left and right in defense of draft-card burners during the Viet Nam War, Jehovah's Witnesses who choose not to recite the Pledge of Allegiance, Nazis who wanted to march in Skokie, Ill., and a fair trial for Oliver North. Says William Schneider, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute: "Being linked to the A.C.L.U. is a problem because it takes up unpopular causes. Presidential candidates prefer popular causes...