Word: bannered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This winter's cold weather temporarily threatened the balanced budget goal; but other cuts, as well as increased revenue and a "banner year" for the Harvard College Fund--which raised more than $6 million last year--compensated for higher energy costs, Kaufmann said...
...insists that the difficulty in defining the Carter Administration comes from the events in the political world. Most Americans now seem to agree on the general goals for Government-things like better health care and more jobs. Thus there may be no need for a President to raise a banner in the old way-just for him to make the slogans that have gone before mean what they...
California was the media star of the '60s, and television was its agent. TV loved "the Coast." It was kinko-pop in Technicolor, with Carol Doda for dessert. Why trek to states out back when legions of braless grandmothers, hirsute cultists and banner-waving Chicanos could be filmed within an hour's commute of Los Angeles or San Francisco? Under the unblinking gaze of TV, California's every permutation assumed cosmic significance...
...London alone, there were 4,000 street parties. On Hammersmith's Daffodil Street, for example, the semidetached brick houses of this lower-middle-class neighborhood were decorated with portraits of the Queen and festooned with balloons and bunting. In the working class's East End, a banner proudly proclaimed JUBILEE STREET OK FOR LIZ, while in wealthy Kensington, a bobby-sporting two Union Jacks in his helmet-led a conga line of 300 residents, including four Tory M.P.s and a handful of diplomats...
...Menotti and his colleagues, the rain stopped just before the opening outdoor ceremony at noon the first day. From a temporary stage erected in the courtyard of the two-century-old College of Charleston, a crowd of 3,000 heard the Festival Brass Quintet begin with the Star-Spangled Banner and a brief new piece written for the occasion by Menotti, Fanfare for Charleston. Earnest speakers followed, talking of "commitment to excellence" and "art must be part of the equation." As the music resumed, the dignitaries marched off the platform, thoroughly distracting the audience from some 16th century music...