Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Across the nation, M-day observances are aimed at suspending business-as-usual in order to allow protest, debate and thought about the war. The Moratorium demonstrates a diversity and spread unknown in the earlier landmark protests against the war: the march on the Pentagon in October 1967, which inspired Norman Mailer's The Armies of the Night, and the bloody riots the following summer in Mayor Daley's Chicago. Each of those involved directly only a minority of the young and the radical intelligentsia, not anything resembling a cross-section of U.S. society...
...hour march to the Common was peaceful and almost quiet. The demonstrators were spread out over a dozen blocks and were unable to sustain chants. Along Mass. Ave. near Central Square, thousands in the line of march waved peace signs at office workers, many of whom smiled and waved back. A radio station supplied several bushels of apples. When the demonstrators crossed the Harvard Bridge into Boston, they raised their arms in peace signs at police and press helicopters swooping low over them...
...Saturday, when Harvard routed Columbia, people were surprised. How did they ever do it without Champi? On Sunday, when the credit should have been given to a resilient Harvard team, Champi was given a front page story, and a full page spread in the sports section. Pictures of his heroism, play-by-play of the rally, an elegy or two. Champi doesn't want it. His teammates are being overlooked because of it. It won't happen again, but it should never have happened...
Mather House, we were told last spring, would be finished by November. Meanwhile, we are to be spread out as thin as possible among the suites in the rest of the Houses so maybe nobody will notice we're there. I ask the Eliot House supervisor for my key. On the House list there is a large star next to my name. "You're a Mather House sophomore." he says with distaste. "You boys sure are causing a lot of trouble for us here in Eliot House...
...time interval of one minute between the first and fifth runners, often an indication of a team's strength, was wider than desirable but McCurdy attributed the spread to the hard workout he gave his team on Thursday...