Word: placard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scene reminiscent of the last days of Syngman Rhee, some 12,000 placard-carrying students, cheered on by thousands of adults, marched in drizzling rain down Seoul's Capitol Avenue one day last week, crying "Drive Park out!" and "People are hungry! Let us eat profiteering millionaires!" Outnumbered police opened up with tear gas; the rioters replied with rock barrages, broke through police lines and drove off nine army trucks being used as barricades. The screaming, cursing clashes lasted all day and into the night, left scores of injured littering the wet pavement. Clamping on martial...
...agents and advance logistics men laying plans for a major presidential trip-less than 48 hours away-into the depressed-area battlefields of Indiana, Pennsylvania, Kentucky and West Virginia. The word went out: Let the kids out of school, let all good unionists get ready to gather, let the placard painters go to work...
...biggest reception came two days later when McNamara, Lodge and Khanh carried the show to the northern city of Hue, only 55 miles from the Red North Viet Nam border. At the airport the party was almost swept off its feet by antiCommunist, placard-waving students (BOB, NO MORE BAY OF PIGS...
...many who have not the courage to join a freedom march, or carry a placard, or go to jail for a cause. But I can publicly declare the side...
...Russians watched with amazement, more than 400 African students last week battled Red cops in the streets, inside Red Square itself, right past Nikita Khrushchev's own office window. "Moscow-A Second Alabama," said one crudely lettered sign, in Russian and in English. "Stop Killing Africans," warned another placard...