Word: bannered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were in a festive mood, strumming guitars and singing patriotic songs around their campfires. From all over Israel, they had descended upon the ancient city of Jericho for a 24-mile march to the town of Bethel. At Bethel, ten miles north of Jerusalem, they erected a large white banner. It read: "The Lord said unto Abraham ... Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and the breadth of it; for I will give it unto...
P.L.O. Flags. As the mourners carried the two coffins through the dusty streets to the stone Ramallah mosque, demonstrators sympathetic with the outlawed Palestine Liberation Organization appeared, waving P.L.O. flags and a banner reading NO SETTLEMENT IN PALESTINE. In many other West Bank towns, villagers angered by the Gush Emunin march set up roadblocks of flaming tires and threw rocks at Israeli troops. In Nablus, Israeli soldiers opened fire on rioters, killing one Palestinian and wounding nine others...
Hard to understand those who would still carry Nixon's banner after he has smeared dirt in all our faces...
...some of his comrades from Green Haven prison. Their opposition: New York's Finest, who agreed to the charity game at Long Island's Hofstra University in order to raise money for retarded children. Despite plenty of support from enthusiastic fans in the bleachers-including a sideline banner proclaiming LET'S GO CROOKS-Quarterback Brown failed to connect with any of his bombs, and the flatfeet walked off with a convincing 34-6 victory. No appeals are pending...
...Eliot and Ezra Pound-have allowed just about any flyspecked page to masquerade as divine afflatus. "Poetry," Pound insisted, "must be as well written as prose," but he did not reckon on the grunts, snorts and limping non sequiturs that his epigones would later commit to paper under the banner...