Word: bannered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...revolutionary government with full sovereignty over all Indonesia." Designated Premier of the new state was Sjafruddin Prawiranegara, ex-Governor of the Bank of Indonesia and a bitter personal enemy of President Sukarno. Cried Sjafruddin: "It is with deep sorrow and sadness that we are compelled to raise the banner of challenge against our own head of state. We have talked and talked. Now we must...
...deference to the view of Harry Truman that the Missouri Waltz is "as bad as The Star-Spangled Banner so far as music is concerned," the Democratic National Committee will omit the Waltz from the program of a fund-raising banquet that Truman is to attend in Washington this week...
...Explorer whirled overhead, a sigh of relief that was almost audible swept the free world. AT LAST, proclaimed a banner headline in the Buenos Aires Herald, AN UNCLE SAMNIK...
...against our country being stampeded into Communism." But Gunawardena, bent on using the land-reform program to gain for himself the national following he has so far failed to win, openly trumpets to his pajama-clad dockers: "Within 20 years the whole world will come under Communism's banner. As surely as there is a sun and moon, our island will become a Communist country...
...candid, colloquial length before so vast an audience. On the Missouri Waltz, he said: "I don't give a damn about it, but I can't say it out loud because it's the song of Missouri. It's as bad as The Star-Spangled Banner so far as music is concerned." A bright-eyed 72 when the film was shot. Truman favored posterity with his sunburst smile and flashes of his shrewdness, wisdom and trove of history. The camera and microphone etched the old cockiness and the saber-toothed campaigning technique as well...