Word: marching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...your very perceptive Essay, "The Difficult Art of Losing," you overlooked perhaps the sweetest sour grape ever uttered: On March 9, 1832, Abraham Lincoln said, "If the good people, in their wisdom, shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to be very much chagrined...
...tolerate any more anti-Soviet dissent. Later, as Prague grew tenser by the minute, he underscored the warning. At week's end the 6,000-man Prague garrison was placed on alert, and military policemen patrolled the streets carrying submachine guns. Though student leaders promised not to march in the streets, many led pro-Dubček sit-ins and announced they would join workers in special "Dubček shifts" at factories...
Moscow's crematory hall echoed with the somber notes of Chopin's Funeral March as the group of 200 mourners stood around the open coffin. They listened quietly as a tall, ramrod-straight man, his voice choked with emotion, eulogized its occupant. Suddenly, the cavernous hall's public-address system crackled out a brusque announcement that the group's time was up. Then, before more than a handful of mourners had been able to plant a parting kiss on the dead man's forehead, a woman in a black smock slid a cover...
Cheerleaders from Harvard and Radcliffe will lead the anticipated screaming throng of more than 1000 people who will march to the Yard to the age-old fighting tunes of the Harvard Band...
Then I decided to start a paper, in March of '38. I had been in court, I had listened to several cases, I thought some of the stuff was very humorous. When you read it in the daily papers they seemed to take the whole thing serious. It didn't appear very serious to me, if a man was chasing a prostitute through an alley, a policeman chasing a prostitute through an alley, or two or three of them, jumping over barrels and she climbing over fences, trying to capture a girl for soliciting or something like that, I thought...