Word: showings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...think that the time has come when we must begin to think of alcohol in the same category as other dangerous drugs. Send a reporter to my hospital and I'll show him where our medical tax dollars are going. They're being used like blotters to soak up the alcohol in which most of my patients are pickled...
...permissive or obligatory delay," and to most people it meant a pause in paying one's debts or in talking. Now, suddenly, "moratorium" has become the focus of national attention in its special 1969 sense: M-day, Oct. 15, a movement intended by its organizers and supporters to show the Nixon Administration that large and growing numbers of Americans want out of the Viet Nam war as fast as possible...
...editorial called President Nixon's statement that he will ignore yesterday's Moratorium "the biggest mistake of his long career." It said, "He showed what no leader of a democracy should show, that public opinion will have no effect at all upon public policy...
...program of support for the NLF will seriously hamper the recruiting efforts needed to achieve this end. To bring one citizen around to backing immediate withdrawal on this basis-or to convince one already in favor of withdrawal to take action to show his support-will require convincing them that the NLF is a positive good deserving their wholehearted support...
Several groups, including the Veterans of Foreign Wars. have encouraged their members to fly American flags during the day as a counter action to the demonstration. Sen. Hugh Scott (R-Pa.) has called on Americans to drive with their headlights on during the day to show their support for Nixon's policies...