Word: sat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard football coach John Yoviesin sat alone in a deserted section of the Crimson locker room last Saturday afternoon, just staring at the floor and wondering what had happened. His football team has just been humiliated by a squad that had not won an Ivy game all season, and that had not defeated a Harvard team since...
...legislative aide sat me down and told me how his Congressman had supported the October Moratorium. He then told me that thirty days was not enough time for the President to change his views, and thus he could not support this November action. When I explained to him that Congressmen themselves could do something about the war, he laughed in my face. I didn't think it was funny...
...slow motion, he somehow worked his size 14 hunting boots through the tangle of twigs without a sound. Coming upon a clearing, he pointed to deep ruts in the black soil and whispered: "That's as big a buck track as I've ever seen." As he sat statue-still behind a huge uprooted maple, a woodpecker's tattoo shattered the intense quiet like small arms fire. Overhead, squadrons of Canada geese flew south like dark arrows in the sky. They were the only signs of life the entire...
...attrition is growing. Late last month, at its annual convention in Columbus, Ohio, the A.C.C.C. went so far as to repudiate its founder. Mclntire was pointedly not returned to the council's executive committee, on which he has sat for 28 years. The convention also passed a resolution criticizing him for his cavalier transfer of an A.C.C.C. relief fund to the l.C.C.C.-and then spending some 54% of nearly half a million dollars for "administrative expenses" over eight years...
...whole spirit of the confrontation changed when some 500 demonstrators broke through the line of MP's from the North and raced toward the Mall entrance. While only two or three of the demonstrators actually made it to the door, hundreds of them sat down near the entrance. A number of them were lugged off to paddy wagons. Those who remained, still hemmed in by the MP's, began to settle down for the night. By then, many of the reporters decided that the action was over and that they had worked a full day. But in truth the violence...