Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...discontent from within its own borders. Despite stern warnings to cease their campaign on behalf of four writers imprisoned in January for underground literary activity, a dozen professors, writers and other intellectuals sent a letter to the Budapest meeting protesting the defendants' fate and that of "several thousand political prisoners" confined to prisons and concentration camps under "harsh infringements of legality." "We appeal to the participants in the consultative congress," said the letter, "to fully consider the peril caused by the trampling on the rights of man in our country." All twelve signed their names, even though...
...sailboats, but its real subject is the vivid plumage of birch, sugar maple, hemlock and scarlet oak. A century later, Cropsey's portrayal is still fresh and unspoiled, a continuing celebration of the season when, as Thoreau said, "every tree is a living liberty pole, on which a thousand bright flags are flying...
...world's most beautiful woman. As with the role of Cleopatra, it is virtually impossible for any actress to live up to that kind of advance billing. Jennifer West fails abysmally by playing Helen as a dumb, dumb blonde, more waitress than temptress; far from launching a thousand ships, it appears doubtful whether she could pilot a coffee cup across a hash house...
John Beckett, chairman of the Rockefeller write-in campaign in New Hampshiret, said at a press conference before the meeting that Rockefeller people planned to spend $5000 for that state's primary. This compares to $250 thousand being spent by Richard Nixon...
...plane circling overhead will drop forty thousand anti-draft leaflets on downtown Boston when Raymond A. Mungo, a first-year graduate student in English, refuses induction at 8 a.m. Wednesday at the Boston Army Base...