Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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In the tragic polarization of the American people which we now sense impending, let us not aggravate the situation by disparaging the civil loyalty and trusting rally-to-the-head-of-State on the part of all those fellow citizens whose instinctive patriotism and whose military and quasi-military formations...
Our self-control and our sorting out of licit and illicit actions and sanctions for our position are now much more difficult than in the civil rights movement, Phase I. When this Phase I came to an end with the assassination of Martin Luther King, it was especially meaningful to...
While dissent and appeal to America's principles of fair play is called defeatism and even treachery, getting out of the war through the expedient of Vietnamization just because the United States forces are now clearly not winning is generously called patriotism. We who are excluded from the presidential embrace...
Yet, despite the perhaps temporary inward withdrawal of allegiance to the flag of the Republic on the part of some black militants and other alienated groups, despite the Vietcong flags of some of our fellow resisters (who for their part of overtly anti-establishment and have lost hope for America...
Before it became Veterans Day it was Armistice Day. Many of us here can remember the tonality of the original celebration of this day with traffic and all activity stopping at 11 a.m. for a universal moment of solemn silence in recollection of the prodigious sacrifice in resolution that war...