Word: timing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During that same time, someone had run down the American flag that flew in front of the Internal Revenue building and everyone cheered. Then, half a minute later, someone else ran the flag back up, and everyone cheered again...
...something of a relief when the gas finally started. For, by that time, I just wanted to get through with it so we could all go home. (And, in any case, the gas would at least force us to forget the cold...
...time we reached Pennsylvania Avenue, all the birds had taken refuge in one particular tree where they were setting off a tremendous racket. Suddenly, the crowd, which until then had been chanting walk, walk, now began to yell to each other not to go under that tree. And one girl sighed winsomely, "Even the birds are crying." Even? No, only...
...quite sure what was now demanded of me, I just wandered around for some time. By six o'clock, troops had surrounded the White House, most bank windows had been broken, MPs were stationed at the major hotels to help satirized matrons into limousines, and a pall of gas was spreading haphazardly about the city. The whole affair came off as very South American. So this is what they've been warning us the universities might become, I thought. And then, coming across a book store that had also had its plate glass busted in, I knew I wanted...
...knew that people weren't voting for McCarthy as much as they were voting for us. That was the only rationale for wasting an hour talking with a suburban housewife or trying to cajole a guy that you knew was an implacable racist into voting for Gene. All the time we had been nothing but walking advertisements, not always even aware of the dishonesty at the very soul of our campaign. Why else did we try to dress hassled but neat, and always make an effort to appear ever so friendly...