Word: bannered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been a banner year for Harvard volleyball, but the future looks bright. With a little talent and a lot of dedication the team has made its presence felt in the New England area. "I'm sure Harvard could easily win the Easterns if they had any kind of a program here," Tanaka says...
...stand back from a cluster of them and you could almost imagine the room was filled with figures that are half-human, half-tree, but all energy trapped beneath the wood surface. This exhibition in Hilles consists of smooth-oiled spruce statues and murals with names like Frozen Banner or La Primavera or Full Orchestration. They are abstractions of abstractions, the work of an artist who declares "I never knew an artist in my life". They are a perfect symbiosis between function and form...
...allies are contesting 538 seats (out of 542), but in practically no constituency are two opposition-party candidates pitted against each other. Mrs. Gandhi's party has fielded 492 candidates and is relying on its erstwhile ally, the pro-Moscow Communist Party of India, to carry the banner in most of the other constituencies. Mrs. Gandhi is said to have been told by her own intelligence sources that she can count on winning only 200 seats, and will have to fight for the rest...
...APRIL 16, 1912 edition of the New York American proclaimed the news of history's most famous nautical disaster in typical fashion. Right below a banner headline that announced the sinking of the British luxury liner Titanic off the coast of Newfoundland, the American sadly told the world of the drowning of John Jacob Astor, prominent financier and pillar of New York society. Subsequent paragraphs of the story dealt with the equally shattering deaths of Archibald Butt, President Taft's military advisor, and Harry Elkins Widener of library fame. The news of the 1499 others who perished in the numbing...
...that he held his top-level security clearance, Sakharov was never without the shadow of a bodyguard, even when he slept or went swimming. There were, however, compensations. He won the Stalin Prize and was thrice awarded the country's highest civilian medal, the Order of the Red Banner of Labor. He was the youngest member ever elected to the Soviet Academy of Sciences. He was given a suburban dacha, a sizable Moscow apartment and the princely salary (by Soviet standards) of $26,500 a year...