Word: bannered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was none of the jostling, banner-waving excitement of a normal Chilean election. The festooning posters that usually blot out Santiago were scarcely in evidence, and even the slogans were muted. That is the way Eduardo Frei, Chile's new Christian Democratic President, wants it. Next week, when 2,920,000 voters choose a full Assembly and half of the Senate, the issue, as Frei somberly puts it, is whether or not they will "make a Parliament for Frei"-in other words, make it possible to carry out the platform on which he was elected last September...
...point, where Oxenstierna happens to meet the two young people and, taking pity on them, gives them a safe-conduct that ironically leads to their deaths. Yet the two narratives could hardly be more intimately related. They are the gorgeous upper side and slimy reverse of a banner dragged across a muddy battlefield...
Last week, U.S. bombers piloted by American-based Cuban refugees camoflaged under Tshombe's banner, strafed some Uganda citizens. The excuse for this premeditated U.S.-Tshombe aggression on Uganda was an abortive attempt to cut off supply routes of Tshombe's enemies. Either by coincidence or premeditation, while Uganda was under attack, 150 U.S. jet fighters were en route to North Vietnam for a similar mission...
...states tried to depict themes representative of the Great Society. Texas trundled by proudly with a model of the LBJ Ranch, including a plastic Pedernales River, and a beagle with a tail that wagged. Minnesota's banner heralded the state as the SOURCE OF MAN POWER AND BRAINPOWER, while Hubert's old college band cut loose with The Minnesota Rouser. Education and recreation were the principal themes, Southern states, by and large, had the prettiest girls, and each state had some touch that was indubitably...
...over West Germany on New Year's Eve, candles were lit and placed in windows to burn as symbols of the nation's hopes for reunification. Nonetheless, for Bonn the German New Year began in a mood of gloom. Cried the Bild-Zeitung in banner-headline indignation: SHOWDOWN WITH THE U.S. NO NEGOTIATIONS WITH MOSCOW OVER REUNIFICATION...