Word: bannered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...threatened freedoms of liberal democracy. Those with a higher vision had become the freaks; the inside belonged to Pat Moynihan and defenders of liberal democracy like the elderly woman who angrily mounted the steps of Widener after the AHA ceremony to try to knock down the protesters' bedsheet banner that read, "Moynihan Preaches Democracy But Supports Dictatorships...
...called her office from a pay phone in the Statler. An appointments secretary asked me for a number where she could reach me. I hung up and broke for the convention floor. I made my way past the guards to a row of phones under the Milwaukee Journal banner. I called back and left the Journal's number. There were a few harried moments and then a light on the side of the phone began to blink. Only a few neighboring reporters were there to laugh as I answered "Harvard Crimson...
...this feistiest of Fourths, it will not be Oh, Say Can You See? in New York harbor. There the longest, widest, heaviest, starriest national banner ever lofted will spread amaze amid the tops'ls of tall ships and raise the first gulp of the day. Hung athwart the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge and visible far at sea, the superflag measures 193 ft. by 366 ½ ft., bigger by half than a football field, weighs 1 ½ tons and is constructed like a sail to weather all winds. It was Betsy Rossed in the loft of Marblehead, Mass., Yachtsman-Sailmaker...
...amused contempt. Their martyrdoms were far fewer than religious enthusiasts now claim, he says. And he maliciously derides the church's "uninterrupted succession of miraculous powers, of healing the sick and raising the dead." Gibbon sees little if any progress when the early Christians "finally erected the triumphant banner of the Cross on the ruins of the Capitol." On the contrary, he believes that the Christians were too otherworldly at a time when the world's concerns badly needed attention...
...upper-left-hand corner of the front page there is a slanted banner reading "Elton John T-Shirt Iron-On, Page...