Word: banner
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Bergman and Lingman also carried the Crimson banner against the Georgia Tech. Although they fell 9-8 in their doubles match, the freshman pair managed to retain their composure and win their singles matches...
...torn and tattered flag rescued from the rubble of the World Trade Center in New York caused the first wrangle of the Salt Lake City Games. The U.S. Olympic Committee suggested that the banner should lead the American team into the stadium but found itself under pressure from the I.O.C., which feared that such a gesture could set an undesirable precedent. Later recognizing the exceptional emotion that Americans still attach to the battered symbol, the I.O.C. agreed to allow the Stars and Stripes to be carried in the Opening Ceremony by an honor guard of eight American athletes representing different...
While the guard held the flag still in the spotlight, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir sang “The Star-Spangled Banner.” A Black Hawk helicopter—part of a record $310 million Olympic security plan—hovered overhead...
...Only last week Philippine police arrested three men suspected of plotting with an al-Qaeda ring recently broken up in Singapore. Sleepers like these, with a taste for anti-American action, trained and financed by al-Qaeda, could be part of a regional terrorism fraternity operating under the banner of Jemaah Islamia, which seeks to knit renegade segments of the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia into a radical Islamic state in the South China...
...chairman, announced he was a candidate to oppose Chancellor Gerhard Schröder in national elections this September. Within five days, Stoiber's main opponent for the job, CDU chairwoman Angela Merkel, announced she was dropping out of the race, leaving it to Stoiber to carry the conservative banner...