Word: paradee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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So we are going to Washington today or tomorrow for a big parade with thousands of radicals and pacifists, peace symbols and Viet Cong flags, troops and parade permits. Few know precisely why they are going; many who support immediate withdrawal are not going; some of those going are fairly...
But we don't quite know what kind of fight we can wage. "Surely." Tom Wicker wrote in Tuesday's Times, "Mr. Nixon does not wish the world to see protesting Americans clubbed in the streets with the White House as a backdrop." Why would Nixon not want a good...
The whole point of Washington is the symbolic confrontation, the possibility of violence we detest but feel we must not run from. The public still isn't interested in what we have to say: Politicians and the press talk about parade permits and troop concentrations; they still find it newsworthy...
The silent majority was rained out yesterday. A Veteran's Day parade through downtown Boston attracted only 11.000 marchers, many of whom represented the military, the National Guard, reserve units, veteran's organizations and their auxiliaries.
Parade organizers expected 125,000 onlookers, but a steady rain cut this to about 25,000.