Word: weres
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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For, by the 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...
Not 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...
The lights inside the bus made my eyes water, but I no longer wanted to cry. Conscious that the half of the people on the bus that weren't demonstrators were staring at the other half of us who were, a little of the old exhilaration began to return.
A year and a half ago, I spent a few weeks tramping about the country for McCarthy. It had been a strange experience, because, deep down, we knew that people weren't voting for McCarthy as much as they were voting for us. That was the only rationale for wasting...
Gradually, I began to wish that the three of us did not look quite so disreputable. Even though I was carrying a typewriter and suitcase, there was little, reason to believe that any law-and-ordered citizen would give us a lift. We walked for about an hour. It wasn...