Word: marcher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...marchers filed into the Church several barrages of eggs were aimed at them from across the street. The policemen stood by and watched. Then one marcher went into the street and ripped a pro-war sign. Two of the half dozen policemen holding back the crowd grabbed him, and the crowd surged across the street toward the marchers. For a few moments, as the policemen stood by, fists flew and the two groups confronted each other...
...these shoved his fist into the face of a Harvard marcher. But Boston police prevented a brawl from breaking out. A little while later an empty beer can was thrown from a roof; it landed near the marchers...
...Lampoon is not a political organization, but most of its members have strong informed convictions. On the whole we have a certain amount of balance. One of the most disturbing sights of last Friday's demonstrations was a peace marcher, his face distorted with hate, stamping on an LBJ Easter egg which was rolling menacingly toward...
...states. From North Carolina to North Dakota, he kept up a blistering attack on Goldwater's candidacy. In a nationally televised speech from his home near Scranton, Pa., he laced into Barry: "If a man marching in a parade discovers that his cadence is different from every other marcher, who is he to say that the rest are out of step? But despite all this-despite the knowledge across the country that he lacks public support-despite his reckless pronouncements in the area of war and peace-despite his unorthodox and unusual views of what the Republican Party stands...
Forget the Kids. They told marchers to leave their children at home, strongly suggested that each marcher buy a 250 button, displaying a black hand clasping a white hand and wear it on parade. They arranged for 292 outdoor toilets, 21 portable water fountains, 22 first-aid stations manned by 40 doctors and 80 nurses to be scattered under the monument and along the route of the march...