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Word: placards (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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CONGRATULATIONS! read the placard held high by a muscular white man in a checked shirt. BERNIE GOETZ WINS ONE FOR THE GOOD GUYS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Not Guilty | 6/29/1987 | See Source »

Certainly, some additional support for low-cost housing is necessary. In East Brooklyn a handwritten sign on the door of Nehemiah's offices sums up the dilemma faced by private housing groups across the country. PLEASE DO NOT KNOCK! reads the placard. WE ARE SOLD OUT. Those on the list for Nehemiah housing face a wait of more than two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Building From The Bottom Up | 2/9/1987 | See Source »

...course of the protest the crowd began to shower police assigned to protect the Klansmen with bottles and rocks. The cops responded with tear gas. As I ran from the gas, I passed a Black man slumped against a statue. He held a placard. Its message? "We Want Jobs...

Author: By David J. Barron, | Title: The March of Racism: The Forsyth Saga | 2/5/1987 | See Source »

Delores Carey, 53, toted a "Kennedy for Congress" placard outside the Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School to make sure ballot-casters "won't forget to vote...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Voter Turnout Worst Since Election of 1916 | 11/5/1986 | See Source »

...Well, at least we know they're not all Jews," one Cambridge police officer said to another, as he caught sight of a man--not affiliated with the protesters--bearing a placard which read "America Divest from Israel...

Author: By Steven Lichtman, THE CRIMSON STAFF | Title: Reporter's Notebook: A Little Trivia Anyone? | 9/6/1986 | See Source »

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