Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hour march to the Common was peaceful and almost quiet. The demonstrators were spread out over a dozen blocks and were unable to sustain chants. Along Mass. Ave. near Central Square, thousands in the line of march waved peace signs at office workers, many of whom smiled and waved back. A radio station supplied several bushels of apples. When the demonstrators crossed the Harvard Bridge into Boston, they raised their arms in peace signs at police and press helicopters swooping low over them...
Also in Boston armed Army troops were ordered to Fort Devens in the event that trouble occurred during the demonstrations. Troops were also on call in Rock Island, Ill., but were not used as the Pentagon reported that the national situation was "generally quiet...
...dozen black militants, joined by other anti-war demonstrators attempted to crash the northwest gate of the White House. The protesters were quickly routed as U.S. park police arrested five. A fist-swinging melee developed as anti-Moratorium picketers attacked the protest-in Congress the halls were relatively quiet as many of the members spent the day speaking to Moratorium crowds across the nation. Anti-war Representatives were blocked in their efforts to keep the House in session all Tuesday night...
They both looked at each other in quiet amazement. She looked at the floor and understood she had been caught again...
...After a quiet day today, Chicago's newspapers have banner headlines like Chicago Today's "Radicals' Invasion Crushed by City...