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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As he addressed an Indiana University audience on the eve of M-day, counseling nonviolence, someone turned off the lights in the lecture hall.
From Time Magazine Archive
When M-day came to WPB last week, Donald Nelson faced a dilemma of his own making.
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There's ample time for a backlash against the backlash as M-day draws closer and people start feeling millennial peer pressure to make impressive plans.
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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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