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Word: weres (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although estimates vary widely as to how many youths gathered on the broad avenue on the edge of the Federal Triangle area of Washington, it seems reasonable to say that between 10,000 and 20,000 were there. In any case, the crowd was larger than that at any demonstration...

Author: By Robert M. Krim, | Title: D. C. Protest Points to Growing Militance | 11/18/1969 | See Source »

Certainly, very few of the crowd would probably be willing to take the consequences of being true revolutionaries in America now-bullets rather than tear gas. But they showed more radical political sophistication in this situation than in similar recent actions. The issues on which they based the confrontation-the...

Author: By Robert M. Krim, | Title: D. C. Protest Points to Growing Militance | 11/18/1969 | See Source »

After the demonstrators were finally driven away from the Federal Triangle area, many regrouped to lead an assault on the White House, Several thousand militants ran past two police checkpoints before they were finally stopped within a block of the White mansion's high black gates.

Author: By Robert M. Krim, | Title: D. C. Protest Points to Growing Militance | 11/18/1969 | See Source »

Holy secularity was becoming wholly secular and the effect scared the lot of us. Not that we were afraid of incarnating Christ-the Holy Spirit beat the theologians to that one-but that the search for God's immanence could lead to His entrapment. Once He got in He might...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From the Shelf The Feast of Fools | 11/18/1969 | See Source »

Our world can't abide phantasy, fools, excess and dreams. The Bible and church history is loaded with all of these categories. Christ was a dreamer. The martyrs were excessive as they leaped at the lions and the flames. St. Francis and his little band of bearded, be-sandaled, begging...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From the Shelf The Feast of Fools | 11/18/1969 | See Source »

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