Word: bannered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rate-$1.50 for all the beer a student could surround in three hours. His taps ran dry, and before a refill truck could rescue him, the offended scholars had pitched his furniture overboard. The owner kept his temper, next day hired a plane to patrol the beach with a banner advising that the dry spell would not recur...
...sirens!" yelled Governor Quinn to his listener. "Close the schools and get going!" Delegate Burns hollered the same news into his phone, and instantly the palace in Honolulu was rocking with cheers. The throng swelled with a lusty singing of the Hawaiian anthem, Hawaii Ponoi, and the Star-Spangled Banner, and then fell silent in prayer. ("I'm a grown man," blubbered Quinn's administrative assistant, Bob Ellis, happily. "Why am I crying...
Promptly at 3 o'clock one afternoon last week, Ernest Joiner, 47, editor of the weekly Ralls, Texas Banner (circ. 1,175), planted a cigar beneath his mustache, wrapped a grimy printer's apron about his waist and flipped the switch on the old flatbed press. As the first ink-wet copies of the Banner began to roll, it seemed much like the press run of any of thousands of other small-town U.S. papers. It wasn't. If last week's edition ran true to form, Editor Joiner's own column in the Banner...
...Banner" Price Hike: "We're not apologizing for the rate increase. We don't recall that our favorite grocer knocked himself out explaining when our favorite 46-oz. can of tomato juice jumped from 19? two years ago to 36? as of today. There's nothing prohibitive about $4 a year for a home-town newspaper. That's about 7½ ? a copy. About half our readers loll around coffee shops swilling from four to twelve cups of 10? coffee every day. They shouldn't squawk about paying the price of one cup of coffee...
...thirsty after a long march, and anyway, the Police Commissioner, with his gay motorcycle escort, was well ahead. Eight young majorettes high stepping proudly in their cerise cunics and white wild west boots, came prancing after them. Marching along squarely behind their majorettes were two girls supporting a felt banner boasting the words, figured in fuchsia on a green field, "Roxville Junior Marching Band and Music Team." And directly behind them came the marching band and music team in its full strength, playing a lilting interpretation of "McNamara's band...