Word: stand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...violent confrontation. If there is rioting in the capital, it will offend many who sympathized with the October demonstrations; a backlash, of course, may be what the Administration wants. Veterans' groups and two newly formed outfits-The National Committee for Responsible Patriotism and the Texas-financed United We Stand-are setting up counter-manifestations in support of Nixon...
...using the word reunification too much, I am speaking about a perspective that makes it possible for the two parts of my nation to live together in one way or another. And there I like to pick up Lincoln's word that "a house divided against itself cannot stand...
...edge of the state's dust bowl. He and his three brothers and one sister had to sleep with wet rags across their faces to filter the air they breathed. "We had a little place right on Highway 62," he recalls. "I used to stand in the front yard and watch the trucks go by, jammed with people heading for California...
...going because the war and the things it symbolizes have warped our lives, because there is almost nothing for us to do but march. We may hate the violence if it comes: we may stand by disapprovingly while others charge the troops and attack the Orwellian Justice Department: we may wish the Weathermen spent more time listening to Dylan. We may even formally dissociate ourselves from the violence; we may do that with the utmost sincerity...
Paranoia had already set in. Once inside the terminal, two women came up to me and apologetically asked me if I were a "-Hippy" and if I were going to the March. There was nothing to say. At the taxi stand marchers recognized each other with few words. The cabby who took me and four other marchers to the Lincoln Memorial questioned us in a non-committal attitude about the planned activities for the day. But when we reached the Mcmorial, his neutrality disappeared and he tripled the fare. This kind of harassment was reported by many of the marchers...