Word: soapbox
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Children poured into the playground and found two jet planes, a tank and three trolleys, an 1870 locomotive, a Coast Guard tug, an amphibious craft, a fire engine, a Marine obstacle course and a soapbox racing track. There were some old-fashioned things too-basketball courts, swings and seesaws...
...with views like Wallace's is entitled to a soapbox and to police protecties-nothing mere. No student group serves the cause of free speech by giving such an individual a responsible platform...
Died. Bonar Thompson, 74, Britain's foremost practitioner of the art of soapbox oratory, whose clarion Irish brogue dominated London's Hyde Park Corner for half a century; in London...
Wild Ungulata. A soapbox liberal on most issues, Young is also a blunt opponent of Government bureaucracy. Investigating expenditures of the Health, Education and Welfare Department, he once hooted at HEW grants for research projects on the social role of wild ungulata ($8,205), Indian caste cohesiveness and personality development ($7,820), the ontogeny of English phrase structure ($2,100), and blood groups genetics of Southampton Island Eskimos...
...take a ride in a Swan Boat. Crossing the road, you enter historic Boston Common, where cows once grazed and where now Irishmen, Italians, Jehovah's Witnesses, and various others debate religion. On weekends the Common resembles nothing so much as London's Hyde Park, with its vehement soapbox oratory...