Word: road
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wider Division? Chicago was not the end of the road for the militants. Scott Lash, 22, a psychology dropout from the University of Michigan and a McCarthy worker, observed that the Chicago scene left most of the marchers more frustrated and embittered. Scuffing his hiking boots and twiddling his granny glasses, Lash lamented at week's end: "There's going to be a wider division in the country than ever. There's going to be more violence, both by whites and blacks, and I'm willing to be part of it. I wouldn't have...
...intellectuals, defenders of the independence of the country," were issued guns and drilled briskly. Responding to reported shifts of Bulgarian armored units to the Danube River border, the Rumanians moved tanks within striking distance of the bridge at Giurgiu-a high, mile-long span that carries a vital road crossing the 367-mile frontier...
...Moscow? In the countryside, Czechoslovak farmers tore down or changed the direction of every road sign they could find, even coordinated a circular route that put one Polish division back at its own border after traveling 36 miles. Lost tank commanders were greeted by a forest of new road signs that read: "To Moscow: 2,000 kilometers." In Bohemia, gypsies dismantled tank antennas while townspeople engaged the crews in friendly conversation. When Russian security officers started arriving in Prague to round up well-known liberals, residents daubed their house numbers with paint and switched virtually every street marker...
...some 1,500 stranded Americans, including onetime Film Star Shirley Temple Black and TV Actor Robert (U.N.C.L.E.) Vaughn, to West Germany and Austria. Tourists streamed out of the country in their cars, often driving past menacing Soviet tanks parked at lonely countryside junctions with their guns pointed at the road. The Czechoslovaks at first begged the tourists to stay and aid them in their struggle, then put them to work carrying out mail for relatives abroad and film to show the world what was happening. As the tourists left the country, Czechoslovak frontier guards urged them to mobilize opinion against...
East of the town, the Viet Cong tenaciously clung to a stretch of strategic road that could be used as an approach to Saigon. The Viet Cong fought mechanized U.S. troops to a standstill for three days. So furious was the fighting that the Americans burned out barrel after barrel of their .50-caliber ma chine guns...