Word: anthem
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...Patriotism means more than holding your hand over your heart during the national anthem. It means more than walking into a voting booth every two or four years and pulling a lever. Patriotism is a love and a duty, a love of country expressed in good citizenship...
...AWKWARDNESS: Zohan: Enters a Paul Mitchell salon and demands a job: is mocked by the employees as he disco dances his way out of the shop Borat: Sings the national anthem at a southern rodeo, gets booed by the crowd as he deliberately botches the words. Jesus: Walks his new California neighborhood to introduce himself as a sex offender...
...string of prerace mishaps--including being badly spooked by a band playing the national anthem--didn't stop Seattle Slew from taking the Derby. He became the first undefeated Triple Crown winner...
...bleached airport, Bush was greeted with the Gulf's signature mix of garish oil wealth and tinpot amateurism. A large retinue of royalty watched as a band played an off-key version of the U.S. national anthem. Bush walked through the cavernous air terminal to his motorcade and drove to the monarch's "farm" at al Janadriyah. Through the enormous gates and along alleys of dying shrubs and trees fed by miles of futile drip hoses, he made his way to the King's "villa," a marble-clad, poured concrete palace. Through a foyer with a statue of a cheetah...
...Obama may make it sound like just a random fashion choice, but there is a large swath of Americans who take symbols like the pledge of allegiance, the national anthem, and, yes, the flag in its many iterations very seriously. And, as former Clinton adviser Doug Schoen pointed out in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal this week, these are people - mostly white working-class folk - whom Obama can ill afford to offend given his losses in Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia...