Word: bannered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...White House jet left the dusty airport of Khartoum, a Sudanese brass band played Auld Lang Syne, slowly and starkly so that it sounded almost like Taps. When the jet landed at chilly, wet Andrews Air Force Base near Washington, D.C., an Air Force band played The Star-Spangled Banner while cannons fired a 19-gun salute. Thus, with poignant ceremony, were the bodies of Ambassador Cleo A. Noel Jr. and Deputy Chief of Mission George Curtis Moore returned home last week...
...Road again. The city's main thoroughfare, once full of rickshas and pedicabs, was empty except for some blue-clad bicyclists. The once glittering shopwindows were covered over by giant red billboards: LONG LIVE THE GREAT UNITY OF THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD; HOLD HIGH THE GREAT RED BANNER OF MAO TSE-TUNG THOUGHT. We passed the old racecourse, which right after World War II had been converted into a nine-hole golf course. It was then customary for each player to use two Chinese caddies, one to carry the bag and one to watch the ball...
...renounced Radcliffe under the banner of nobullshit equality. Anything that singled out our femaleness was sexist and degrading; masculine advances to our feminity were repugnant to our New Femininity. When we voted for cohabitation we voted to abandon Radcliffe as our shrine. We carried only our sex to Harvard, but we rejected its traditional symbols. There were no longer any institutionalized times or places for girls to be girls or boys to be boys. Many men hightailed back into final clubs or athletics, but Radcliffe surfaced ubiquitous, from House crew to Lampoon. And Harvard started to dress differently--women foreswore...
...comparison between the degree of freedom in East Germany and in America. Why didn't he tell the readers about some of the specific examples of lack of free speech mentioned in the book? Like a university student sent to jail for several years for holding up a lonely banner reading "Russians Our of Germany." Or another student expelled from University, without even written charges or a hearing, for asking a professor why they couldn't read a certain book. Or two ninth graders arrested by policemen in the middle of a class after saying that there was too much...
...JULY 12, 1971, twelve days after the United States Supreme Court had ruled by a 6-3 majority that government agencies could not prevent publication of the "top-secret" Pentagon Papers, Newsweek magazine ran a banner headline on its cover, "Victory for the Press." The Court's decision was based on First Amendment guarantees against prior restraint of newspapers by the government, and on the public's right to know. Newsweek, surveying the respective positions of the litigants in the case, pronounced: "Few clearer gauges of the sanctity of the First Amendment freedoms, few plainer demonstrations of the openness...