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Word: posterous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Through the holiday crush on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue last week walked a teenage girl with a stenciled poster: "How many shopping days until peace?" A few blocks away a giant billboard loomed over Times Square, bearing a Christmas message from Beatle John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono. The billboard-one of eleven put up on Los Angeles' Sunset Boulevard, London's Shaftesbury Avenue and in several European and Canadian cities-proclaimed: "The war is over ... if you want it. Happy Christmas, John and Yoko...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Notes: Seasoned Greetings | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

...stink bomb is beginning to spread down to the two floors where other Mobe offices are located-the Student Mobilization Committee office, the March Against Death office, the legal office, the medical office, the poster office. Everyone gets an office...

Author: By Scott W. Jacobs, | Title: Chaos Pervades New Mobe Staff | 11/15/1969 | See Source »

...shopping days till Christmas. For the unemployed in urban ghettos, it is the season of petty thievery as they seek to provide presents for their children too. A militant civil rights organization in St. Louis wants to put an end to all that and has started a leaflet and poster campaign aimed at the poor with the message: STOP STEALING FOR CHRISTMAS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Cooling It for Christmas | 11/14/1969 | See Source »

This year, as right safety, Hurley leads the team in pass interceptions with four. One of them. in the Cornell game, is commemorated by a hand-written poster in his room. It reads: "Congratulations Crazy Legs. 101-yard pass interception return, October 18, 1969." "My girlfriend did that." he said. "I guess that she was so excited about it that she forgot how to spell congratulations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Neil Hurley, Right Safety, Calls Signals Very Quietly | 11/14/1969 | See Source »

After the experience of University Hall, everything changed. Struggling was now the only logical thing for many radicals, and initiating violence made sense strategically. (A Weatherman wall poster in Chicago said, "We have to go on the offensive-not just fight back...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chicago Was the First 'Real' Violence | 11/12/1969 | See Source »

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