Word: bannered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plans by Christmas to reduce it again to the functional code, Air Force One. He has banished the royal "we" from statements and speeches. It will be "I." Talking Republican politics last Thursday, he came across the term surrogates used for those Administration speakers who will carry the G.O.P. banner. "I never did like that word when I was one," said Ford. "It sounded like 'sewergate...
...tanned, neatly barbered man. "But not religiously." "Yes," mutters another hurrying by, "but I don't have time to stop." A middle-aged woman takes the counteroffensive: "So what's all this about?" She waves in the direction of a van parked near by, emblazoned with a banner reading "Mitzvah Mobile." Inside, more young men in black hats and beards are busy talking-and praying -with people they have stopped...
Tricia's husband Edward Cox arrived at the White House from New York to join his wife, Mrs. Nixon, Julie and David Eisenhower in the family quarters. That gathering, too, signaled the fast-approaching end of the Nixon presidency. Rumors of resignation caused banner headlines and dominated news broadcasts. The stock market rallied again, with the Dow Jones industrials rising almost 24 points. Crowds gathered along the fences surrounding the White House; mostly somber and curious, they had the quiet air of a death watch. In the House of Representatives, the gravelly voice of William ("Fish Bait") Miller startled...
...Berry is at CapeCod Coliseum where most of the stars who come to the area play these days, on Friday night. Berry's widely touted as the father of rock and roll and some of his songs, like "Johnny B. Goode," are to rock concerts what "The Star Spangled Banner" is to baseball games. His shows these days are full of a raunchy, good-natured obsession with sex, as shown in that most frequent target of AM radio censoring bleeps, "My Ding-a-Ling." The James Montgomery Band, playing with Berry, is tight, bluesy, and always expected to burst into...
...kidnappings and hostage-takings used to be the kinds of sensations that were the bread and butter of daily newspapers. Even now, while there are thousands of scandalous skeletons for the dailies to pick out of political closets, the bang-bang cops-and-robbers stuff is still given screaming banner-headline play. The Patricia Hearst affair and the "siege" of Washington's U.S. District Courthouse--where two convicts took eight people hostage in an escape attempt last Thursday--are just the sort of thing publishers like to have around for their front pages...