"burn" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- When somebody accused Mezey of urging students to burn their draft cards, he was suspended with pay for a month while the college investigated.
- Many colleges were shut down by students, and people burned their draft cards at public rallies.
- In 1947 he was among demonstrators who burned their draft cards outside the White House.
- The guys who actually organized the demonstrations and burned their draft cards et cetera were taking very substantial risks they didn't need to do.
- Beginning in May 1964, some activists burned their draft cards at anti-war rallies and demonstrations.
- Subsequently, 46 men were indicted for burning their draft cards at various rallies, and four major court cases were heard.
- From 1965 to 1973, very few men in the U.S. were convicted of burning their draft cards.
- During the Vietnam War, the young men who publicly burned their draft cards did so knowing that they could be imprisoned for the act.
- But when they burned their draft cards, no one died.
- The men of the tribe burn their draft cards.
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