Word: bannered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rode to Legion Field that Saturday on a chartered bus, since no mortal could have braved the flood of football traffic that always took over downtown Birmingham on Auburn-Alabama day. Our fellow travellers were a wild assortment of banner-waving, horn-blowing, bourbon-swigging Alabama fans. Along the way, the men had cursing battles, sang obscene fight songs, and bet themselves into insolvency over the outcome of the game...
...Chase job made 1973 a banner year for Wall Street's outlaw satellite, the market in hot stocks, bonds and other securities. The total take is enormous. W. Henry DuPont, chairman of a firm that keeps track of missing securities, estimates that $50 billion in illegitimate paper is afloat, most of it blue-chip stocks and some of it federal, state, municipal and corporate bonds. Insurance companies are the ultimate victims. They must make good to any insured bank or brokerage house that takes a loss by theft or by buying hot securities in good faith. Most banks...
...palace, the bride and groom made their traditional appearance on the palace balcony. The crowd, said Mark's father, retired Major Peter Phillips, "reminded me of V-E day." At one point the bridal party broke into laughter when Mark spotted a long white banner reading: "It's never too late to say 'neigh'-congratulations from the Royal Veterinary College." Mark, an Olympic gold medalist who shares Anne's passion for horses, turned to the princess and said...
...sources said, the Miami businessman claimed that the gift was first suggested by Hughes Executive Richard Danner and delivered to Rebozo in two equal installments, one in 1969 and one in 1970. Hughes intended the money to be used in Nixon's 1972 re-election campaign, Rebozo said. (Banner claims that the funds were earmarked for congressional candidates in the 1970 mid-term elections.) Yet for reasons that are unclear, the money was not turned over to any campaign. Instead, Rebozo kept it stashed in a Key Biscayne safe-deposit box until last spring, when Robert Maheu, the deposed...
...electricity came along to revolutionize the game. In 1935 pinball was introduced to the anti-tilt device and the solenoid-powered bumper units, essentials to the modern game. 1937 was a banner year as well, as the now defunct Western Electric and Supply company added the allure of free games. The final major invention to hit the pinball scene came as recently as 1947, when the late Harry Mas introduced the solenoid-activated power flipper...