[Ads-l] die-in

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Wed May 24 20:20:13 UTC 2017


On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 9:19 AM, Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at gmail.com> wrote:

> the term goes at least as far back to the first Earth Day in April 1970,
> when demonstrators in Boston staged a die-in.
>

Glad that I'm not the only one who remembers that!


-- 
-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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