Word: parked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...participants in yesterday's demonstration spent Sunday night camping at Green Belt Park and then took buses to Capitol Hill. Marching through the mall towards the Capitol building, the protesters beat drums and sang traditional Indian hymns...
Carter asked the park officials to put a marker where Georgian Ambrose Wright had breached the Union line on the second day of Gettysburg. Then he stopped down below to see the monument to the Georgians, put up on the spot where they assembled. "When duty called, we came, when country called, we died," it read. So sad and sobering, mused Carter, yet men so brave...
...Twas the season to be jolly for Bart and Evelyn Brizzolara of Evergreen Park, Ill. While other families in the Chicago suburb celebrated the Fourth of July by waving flags or lighting firecrackers, the Brizzolaras brought up their cartons of Christmas decorations from the basement, hung an evergreen wreath and holly on the front door and gathered around their Christmas tree...
...wheezing touch-football stalwarts assembled in Manhattan's Central Park were not exactly current championship contenders. Present were members of the Baltimore Colts and the New York Giants who played in the N.F.L.'s electrifying, first-ever overtime final in 1958 (the Colts won, 23-17). On hand were such Baltimore ex-greats as Johnny Unitas, 45, Raymond Berry, 45, and Gino Marchetti, 51. On the Giants side were Charley Conerly, 56, Frank Gifford, 47, and Kyle Rote, 50. Primed on beer and banter, the Baltimoreans puffed and passed to a 28-14 victory, overcoming such verbal assaults...
...song like Sunday in the Park is a musical idyl to the garment workers' one day off, where lovers hold hands, mothers stroll with their tots and old people bask on sunny benches. The park has to be Central Park, since Pins and Needles is very New Yorky in tone and allusion. Now people still do those things in Central Park, but its current "social significance" is that it is a place one enters at the risk of being mugged or mangled by young thugs armed with baseball bats...