Word: armbanded
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Powell said that demonstrations might involvethe wearing of an armband or the turning of one'sback during Clark's address. He also speculatedthat 100 to 200 students might refuse to accepttheir diplomas from the Dean...
Would a black armband be exempted from official regulations as readily as a yellow ribbon or a flag? So popular is the war effort that the question has not come up yet -- and Marco Lokar did not stay around long enough to raise it. But as people like Lokar and Dunn are finding out, the fewer dissenters there are, the more they need protection...
...them, a historian, recounted how he bludgeoned his favorite teacher. As other students began hurling insults and then blows at the victim, the mild-mannered historian "imagined more and more eyes looking at me, demanding answers." Realizing that he would be stripped of his prized Red Guard armband if he failed to take part in the assault, he constructed a rationale to justify joining the brutality. His teacher's past devotion had been but a ruse to tar him as a fellow counterrevolutionary, he reasoned. He convinced himself that the manner in which the old man fell to his knees...
...Olympics, for every jubilant Pirmin Zurbriggen skiing to the limit, there is a devastated Dan Jansen suffering to the extreme. One suggests a bright ribbon, the other a black armband. But both are important players. They need each other to describe the Winter Games' opening week, with its fist in the air, its head in its hands, a grin on its face, a tear in its eye, and still eight days...
...seem helpless to prevent their President from laying a wreath, this Sunday, upon the graves of Nazi SS soldiers. They can, however, bear witness to history by standing with the victims of the SS Wherever the Nazis ruled in Europe, they decreed that all Jewish people wear a yellow armband or Star of David upon their clothing Intended as a mark of shame, it was transformed into a symbol of courage and solidarity by the Gentiles who wore it also We be have an appropriate form of commemoration for all the victims, and repudiation of Mr. Reagan's act, would...