Word: twos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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However, the department said it would grant the permit for the 40-hour "March Against Death" planned to start late November 13 and end just before the mass march. The plan is for about 50,000 to march in a file of twos from Arlington National Cemelery, past the White House to the Capitol...
...investment tax credit. The vote appeared closer than the issue actually was; G.O.P. leaders had been assured by many members that their votes were Nixon's if the measure actually faced defeat on the floor. Minority Whip Leslie Arends marched Republicans in from the cloakroom by ones and twos until he had enough votes to put the surtax over the top. One hundred and fifty-four Republicans supported the surtax. Only 56 Democrats went along with the Administration bill...
...there is also life." To visitors who come to the gallery, he passes out small square blocks of white plaster with a carnation embedded in each. Despite only two guarded references in the censored Greek press, Athenians have made their way to the gallery in droves. They come in twos and threes, solemn, quiet, and most make their comments in whispers. But a few have been more outspoken. Said one young man: "The wire will be snapped off, the plaster will break, and the carnation will give off its perfume again." Added a university professor, who has recently been dismissed...
...four new oarsmen have Olympic experience. Hamlin rowed in the U.S.'s "fours without cox" and Hobbs was in the "twos with cox." Livingston and Porter, who matured on the Crimson's J.V. squad last year, went to Mexico as spares for the U.S. small boats team...
...behind them, in five rows of twos, come ten women with thick, burning candles in their hands. They too must all be in the picture. The women are elderly, with strong, dedicated faces, ready to die should the tigers be loosed. Only two are young-as young as the girls who crowd with the boys-but how innocent their faces and how full of light! Ten women sing and walk in serried ranks. They are as triumphant as though all around them were people crossing themselves, praying, repenting, bowing to the ground. These women do not smell the cigarette smoke...