Word: bannered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there is some action. The F.H. contingent must swing around a quarter turn. The result is hectic. Under the Defend the Democratic Rights of Oppressed Nationalities banner stands a short and stumpy man. A faded version of the Pillsbury Doughboy dressed in gray cap, jacked and pants, he stomps his feet in cadence with the archings of his eyebrows and the mechanical chomp of his tight-lipped mouth...
...What magazine announced, in January 1973, "All signs continue to point to a banner year for the economy...
When a young man with a crew cut got up and spread out a banner that declared, "I will give up my gun when they pry my cold dead fingers from around it," the crowd stood up and roared its approval with cheers, applause and foot-stamping. The ovation set the tone for the rest of the day's hearings on gun control bills before the state legislature's Committee on Public Safety...
Whenever anyone at the Kansas City convention wanted to show what a great job the convention was doing, he announced that it was so broadly based that everyone could support it, and the huge photogenic banner that overlooked the delegates' deliberations incisively described the base of support they aimed at--as "We the Democrats of the United States." In case there were still any doubters, the Democrats proceeded to make it explicit in their charter: the first purpose of the Democratic party is to elect Democratic candidates to the presidency and other national offices. It's the sort of party...
...convention anyway. And because almost all the Americans most affected by economic crisis and with the greatest interest in social change are in the Democratic party, while the majority of the folks with most to lose through social change aren't among the people referred to in that banner, the convention probably foreshadowed some of what will matter to American politics as the depression starts to really strike home...