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Word: bannered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...houses have been converted to Islamic mosques (without minarets), and other buildings have been made into Sikh and Hindu temples. With nonwhite immigrants now accounting for about one-fifth of the city's 300,000 inhabitants, racial tensions are climbing. Bands of front backers, swinging fists and banner staves, have sallied into peaceful demonstrations by Indians and Pakistanis in what are cruelly called "Paki bashes," and at other times have smashed windows in immigrant areas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: The Coloreds Must Go! | 12/12/1977 | See Source »

...curators went the spoils. The blue-and-white lectern emblem proclaiming NATIONAL WOMEN'S CONFERENCE 1977, which had hung for three hectic, fractious, exhilarating days in Houston, last week was headed for Washington's Smithsonian Institution. It will repose with such other memorabilia as the star-spangled banner that flew over Fort McHenry and Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis. And well it might. Over a weekend and a day, American women had reached some kind of watershed in their own history, and in that of the nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: What Next for US. Women | 12/5/1977 | See Source »

...system is in financial trouble [Nov. 7] because the Congress has made it a general welfare fund, a process that has gone largely unnoticed by the average worker. Liberal legislators have discovered how easy it is to pass general welfare legislation under the Social Security (read old-age pension) banner. Giving away old-age pensions to college kids et al. continues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 28, 1977 | 11/28/1977 | See Source »

...Ellipse, south of the White House, several hundred of the Shah's supporters were seated in bleachers under a huge white banner proclaiming: WELCOME SHAH. Somewhat older and better dressed than the dissidents, most were also overseas Iranian nationals who had flown in from around the country. Many were reluctant to say who had paid their expenses; a few openly said that they had received air fare, hotel accommodation and a bonus $100 bill from representatives of the Iranian government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Greetings for The Shah | 11/28/1977 | See Source »

...Shah bleachers, armed with the handles of their placards and wooden two-by-fours that had been piled up for use in the annual Christmas pageant on the Ellipse. As the President began his welcoming remarks, police struggled to keep the two factions apart. The large white welcome banner was ripped to shreds. At that point, the wind carried the first acrid whiffs of tear gas used by police to quell the outbreak toward the ceremonies in progress on the White House lawn

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Greetings for The Shah | 11/28/1977 | See Source »

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