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Word: marches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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WASHINGTON, D. C.- The Justice Department had dozens of cops inside, peering out the windows, insuring justice. The building is too big and too sturdily built to be saved by an anti-war march, or by a commando raid. Efram Zimbalist often strides through its huge metal dors on his TV show. The building is closed to visitors this week...

Author: By David N. Hollander and Carol R. Sternhell, S | Title: We Call Dead Names | 11/15/1969 | See Source »

...March Against Death is a tiny thread of flickering light-candles stuck inside dixie cups so the wind won't blow them out too often. There are gaps in the line, because it has to stop for traffice lights. Washington has lots of traffic lights...

Author: By David N. Hollander and Carol R. Sternhell, S | Title: We Call Dead Names | 11/15/1969 | See Source »

...line of march starts between monuments to two assassinated Presidents. It passes the monuments to America's deadly bureaucracy-enormous buildings shining under flood-lights, deserted in the early morning except by police inside...

Author: By David N. Hollander and Carol R. Sternhell, S | Title: We Call Dead Names | 11/15/1969 | See Source »

...marched from 2 to 4 a. m. Friday, in a chilling light rain. The march assembled in green and white plastic tents on the far side of the Potomac. Before they march, people are smiling and optimistic; they joke about the lousy toilet facilities...

Author: By David N. Hollander and Carol R. Sternhell, S | Title: We Call Dead Names | 11/15/1969 | See Source »

...dead soldiers were Earl Patterson and Patrick Haggerty. The only people who heard us shout their names at the White House were others in the March Against Death. And they were too busy trying to remember their own dead men's names to notice us. It was so hard to remember their names...

Author: By David N. Hollander and Carol R. Sternhell, S | Title: We Call Dead Names | 11/15/1969 | See Source »

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