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Word: placards (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...single-file "March of Death" from Arlington Cemetery to the Capitol continued today through a hard rain. More than 100 protestors marched solemnly past the White House each hour, each bearing a placard with the name of a soldier who has died in the War. Over 40,000 have marched in the procession, which ends at dawn Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Troops Stand Ready For Protest Today | 11/15/1969 | See Source »

Protestors are predominantly young, but include many GI's and veterans. Each carries a placard with the name of one American killed in Vietnam or one Vietnamese village destroyed during the war. Marchers also carry candles and paper cups...

Author: By (special TO The crimson), | Title: Anti-War Protest Begins; Capital Braces for March | 11/14/1969 | See Source »

...cluttered national headquarters on Washington's Vermont Avenue, there is the cheerful, youthful bustle reminiscent of the "Clean for Gene" New Hampshire primary campaign. One wall bears a placard: "When we lasted long enough, they gave us medals. When we died, they said our casualties were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: STRIKE AGAINST THE WAR | 10/17/1969 | See Source »

...owned Rabat Hilton sat such disparate types as Saudi Arabia's conservative King Feisal, the moderate Shah of Iran and Algeria's strongman Houari Boumedienne. Host Hassan neatly averted the problem of sitting alongside an old enemy, Mauritania's President Moktar Ould Daddah, by having his placard lettered "Kingdom of Morocco." That enabled him to move down seven places at the alphabetically arranged table...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Confusion at the Summit | 10/3/1969 | See Source »

...from Pennsylvania, quoting Red and Blue coach Jim Tupenny as having said incredibly slanderous things about McCurdy's squad Beneath it was an interview with Tupenny. allegedly staged by McCurdy. in which the Penn coach needled the Crimson harriers individually. And off to the left was a large white placard with a limerick on it. attesting to Penn's hubris, and the inevitable punishment which Harvard would wreak upon...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Runners Meet Tough Pennsylvania, Long Triumph Streak In Jeopardy | 10/3/1969 | See Source »

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