| All penknives, soft drink bottles and thermoses were confiscated, but demonstrators were allowed to keep their banners and leaflets. |
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| Some people, more prepared than I was, had brought biscuits, thermoses and sleeping bags. |
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| Others simply lean against the sea wall, thermoses at the ready, their faces turned to the sun. |
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| However, the putrid coffee poured out of industrial Thermoses made me feel like I had just attended some sort of wretched business conference. |
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| It was still dark, of course, and our coach was full of elderly nuns and young children in pushchairs, all carrying picnics and giant thermoses of tea. |
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| It truly felt that revolution was in the air, if revolution meant sleeping bags and Thermoses of hot tea, rather than pitchforks. |
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| Their plastic cups came from visitors from a mosque in Swindon who arrived one afternoon with Thermoses of sweet tea and samosas still warm from the oven. |
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