Word: shopped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Committee. She had gone to the office at 44 Brattle Street with a certain amount of curiosity, and an infinite amount of apprehension. They had told her that they needed people to go from store to store in Cambridge asking the merchants to observe the Moratorium by closing up shop on the 15th. And before she realized exactly what it was she had gotten herself into she was out on the street heading for her first confrontation...
...military-industrial complex, about the legitimacy of the American involvement, about the nature of U.S. imperialism, and about the NLF being the real representative force were all too distant now. They mattered little in the arguments she put forth to another individual. She was asking someone to close up shop to end the war. Arguing about the systems that dictated this disaster, denied the right of the individual to change things. And her arguments were now about the ability of the individual to collectively alter the course of the nation...
Herman Stein, owner of a jewelry store on Madison St. stood in the doorway of his shop with a pipe after demonstrators broke one of his windows...
...Tossing stones, bricks, pipes, and sticks through shop windows, the demonstrators overran any policemen who tried to stop them and ran rampant until a second police line formed two blocks away, trapping most of the people...
...there is any political logic to racing down city streets, breaking shop and car windows and assuaging policemen, the demonstrators have not bothered to make it plain. One R Y M-I leader announced Wednesday night that the "revolution must move like fish in the sea." Against the background of the week's events, the words sounds like a parody of Mao's essential teaching. Chicago's "friendly sea" turned on the group of Weathermen, as some bystanders fought with them in the streets...