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Word: afternoon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crowd was good-natured and generally cooperative throughout the afternoon. A speaker on the podium would occasionally start chants of "Sit Down," when too many people were obstructing others views...

Author: By Theodore Sedgwick, | Title: D. C. Protest Generally Peaceful; Over 250,000 Demand End To War | 11/17/1969 | See Source »

Demonstrators started a few small fires out of trash to keep warm as the afternoon passed. These were discouraged by the speakers. but only one chant of "Put Them Out" was started, with little effect...

Author: By Theodore Sedgwick, | Title: D. C. Protest Generally Peaceful; Over 250,000 Demand End To War | 11/17/1969 | See Source »

Performers and speakers alternated throughout the afternoon on the podium below the Washington Monument...

Author: By Theodore Sedgwick, | Title: D. C. Protest Generally Peaceful; Over 250,000 Demand End To War | 11/17/1969 | See Source »

During the afternoon, the museums were overflowing with people resting after the march...

Author: By Theodore Sedgwick, | Title: D. C. Protest Generally Peaceful; Over 250,000 Demand End To War | 11/17/1969 | See Source »

WASHINGTON, D. C.- Police routed 10,000 people- some of them spectators- in a rally of militant antiwar groups here Saturday afternoon, driving them from in front of the Justice Department with tear gas and clubs. They arrested 50 demonstrators as Attorney General John Mitchell watched from his office window...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: Police Tear Gas Routs Demonstrators In Skirmish at Department of Justice | 11/17/1969 | See Source »

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