Word: stampeders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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A dozen cheerleaders stamped their white boots and chanted: "Ratify the ERA, we shall not be moved!" Familiar feminist leaders-Bella Abzug, Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem noteworthy among them-led some 50,000 men, women and children, most wearing white, to symbolize their spiritual ties with the suffragists,* down...
Some of Whitten's colleagues are predicting that, when and if they start to induct, as many as half those drafted will go c.o. (conscientious objector). It won't be easy to go c.o., Joan Lamb tells me back at the SSS, and the draft will be different this time...
Protesters stamped their feet and danced to keep warm. After one speaker urged the crowd to "jump up and down if you think Carter is an asshole," the more than 1000 shivering demonstrators still left outside City Hall began to hop wildly.
When Billy Cleary talks about Harvard, it is with pride. On his desk sit a half-dozen or so vulcanized-rubber hockey pucks, each stamped in vibrant crimson with the Harvard seal.
It may have been Jimmy Carter's best-yet State of the Union ceremony. More people. More applause. Critical issues. Good speech. But something was missing. Oldtimers remember those nights awash with affection for and trust in Eisenhower, supercharged with Kennedy's joy and youth, permeated with the...