Word: wagoneer
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...snipers and Communist demolition teams, vainly assigned to blow up the forked span, held out against helicopter gunships and jet bombers while U.S. and South Vietnamese armor and infantry slashed at them on the ground. At week's end they came out shooting, trying to escape a tightening "wagon train" ring of allied armor and guns; 88 were killed. Inside Cholon, a few Viet Cong flags blossomed, and terrorists stalked the streets...
...shelters are uncomfortable. The poor people inside say they are uncomfortable, and they look it. Life for the first three days in Resurrection City, USA was above all uncomfortable and boring. Nothing was going on. There were some visitors: Stokely Carmichael drove up in a white Mercury station wagon, sucking a lollipop. He rapped with the folks, and they loved him. But he left. Sen. Charles Percy came to drive in a nail. Mayor Walter Washington and the Chairman of the City Council John W. Hechinger came "to see how things were coming...
...This time the program consisted of the three even-numbered sonatas for violin and harpsichord by J. S. Bach, for which occasion Valenti's custom-made two-manual, seven-stop Challis (featuring among other things, a 16-foot stop and a metal sounding board) was carted up by station wagon from New York. The combined reputations of composer and performers insured a capacity audience, which as it turned out subsumed the entire range of musical appreciation from hedonism to intellectuality. Some came to analyze, some to envy, but most to enjoy...
...well as perform? At the start, he is completely convincing as Cowboy Will Penny-illiterate, aging, and anything but bright. He doesn't even have a heart of gold; Gary Cooper would never have left a wounded pal to bleed his life away in a wagon outside while he loaded up on rotgut in a saloon. That's what Will Penny does, sitting there, scruffy and stupid, upending the bottle and croaking, "Sure burns a dollar's worth." It looks as if this is going to be an interesting experiment in antiheroics amid the great open spaces...
...sign.. The police will have to ax every door to get them out of those offices. They do. Tom Hayden is out now. He yells "Keep the radio on! Peking will instruct you!" When they have 60 of us out they take us to the paddy wagons at mid-campus. I want to make them carry us, but the consensus is that it's a long, dark walk and we'll be killed if we don't co-operate, so I walk. At the paddy wagons there are at least a thousand people cheering us and chanting Strike! Strike...