Word: savely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long, terrible time Mary McGrory said to me, "We'll never laugh again." And I answered, "Heavens, Mary, we'll laugh again. It's just that we'll never be young again." And I really knew that: knew it in recesses of the mind from which memories rarely return save in just such moments. I found myself at one point before a television camera being asked by a gentle and thoughtful Negro journalist did I think the dreams of the New Frontier would ever be realized, and I replied, thinking of nothing, and looking nowhere, that I was reminded...
...become the only indecency left to protest? Do they keep any of the other nine commandments? When adultery and sacrilege have become public pastimes, who can say "Thou shalt not kill"? We are thoroughly damned by our neglect of the other nine; keeping the one cannot save...
...lanky Yugoslavian scored twice in the first quarter, and Harvard's defense had to hang on for three periods to save the shutout. The forward line got off 25 other shots in the game, but it could not score again...
...scene at the Reflecting Pool was something akin to a Be-In on the banks of the Charles save that the preparations were more elaborate. Some 50 Negro D.C. policemen were grouped on the far-side of the gathering demonstrators getting a pep-talk from a white police sergeant; a Red Cross station was set up by the Army as a constant reminder that the authorities expected trouble. As the crowd grew, the entertainment and speeches started--everyone seemed to be wandering around aimlessly looking for someone...
...soldiers were unresponsive to the "teach-out" tactics that the demonstrators adopted. Occasionally one would break down and crack a smile, or mutter under his breath that he wasn't allowed to talk. Thus, save for the threats from the Marshals, the only time I heard a soldier speak was when the paratrooper in front of me turned to his sergeant and said in a disgusted voice, "Somebody's smoking grass...