M-day
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of M-day
First recorded in 1935–40
Example Sentences
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The Detroit News concluded that M-day had probably encouraged the enemy but added that it had also "served as a national safety valve for the venting of frustrations, legitimate and otherwise."
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What M-day did raise was an unmistakable sign to Richard Nixon that he must do more to end the war and do it faster.
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Knox, who admits to having had other disputes with the paper's management, decided on his own to mark M-day with a front-page list of the Waterbury-area war casualties.
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San Francisco State College President S. I. Hayakawa, a hero to California conservatives for his rhadamanthine handling of student demonstrators in the past, serenely denied that M-day was being observed on his campus.
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Yet M-day 1969 was a peaceful protest without precedent in American history because of who the participants were and how they went about it.
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