Word: bannered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...care. Clinging together for mutual support, they met weekdays as the Vicious Circle, a social group that lunched at the Algonquin Hotel and traded mots and puns, Saturday nights over the poker table of the Thanatopsis Literary and Inside Straight Club. Of them all, none set journalism's banner higher than the cigar-smoking, pool-playing little gargoyle with the long neck and the big nose and the bushy mustache: F.P.A...
...advocate a third party, but a coalition of voters with common convictions, men and women of both major parties joined together under a new banner, balanced against the remaining left wing of the Democratic Party...
...Montgomery, Ala., after a white man beat a Negro woman with a baseball bat in a sidewalk incident, 1,000 Negroes silently marched to the white-columned first capitol of the Confederate states to pray and sing the Star-Spangled Banner. In retaliation for the march. Governor John Patterson ordered nine Negro students expelled from Alabama State College, placed 20 others on strict probation...
...banner week for dreamboat groaners, modern and ancient. First off, winsome Nancy Sinatra, 19, daughter of aging (44) Crooner Frank Sinatra, got herself engaged to curly-topped Tommy Sands, 22, one of the few new voices with any detectable talent. Glowed Papa Sinatra approvingly: "I'm very pleased. It's good to have another singer in the family, because I'm getting tired." Then Nancy winged east to New Jersey, where she was on hand at McGuire Air Force Base early one morning, when Mr. Rock 'n' Roll himself, Sergeant Elvis Presley...
...audience settled back in the plush mohair seats, an actor in a monk's robe appeared on stage, spread his arms and said: "Let there be light." With his words, the audience rose, and no musicians, bathed in the glare of spotlights, played The Star-Spangled Banner...