Word: bannered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...America's entry onto the battlefields of Europe, promised the American people a "war to end all wars." Neville Chamberlain, home from Munich carrying his umbrella and waving a piece of paper, promised the world "peace in our time." And now Richard Milhaus Nixon, picking up the fallen banner of the romantic and the insane, says that by giving the Saigon regime a "chance" to survive, he is assuring not only "peace in our time," but for a long time to come...
...Americans, wearing blue uniforms, marched in with the red-togged Chinese team. A banner announced: WELCOME TO THE TABLE TENNIS TEAM FROM THE UNITED STATES. At a loss over how to reciprocate, Glenn Cowan, clad in tie-dyed purple bellbottoms, broke into a sort of frug to the strains of a somewhat unfamiliar tune: Sailing the Seas Depends on the Helmsman, Making Revolution Depends on Mao Tse-tung's Thought...
...wrath of city officials keeps J.L. Hudson Co. from shutting its main department store, which suffered $9,000,000 worth of pilferage last year. "We would close the downtown store in a minute if we could do it without being crucified," admits one Hudson executive. With mordant humor, a banner at a recent press-club banquet asked: WILL THE LAST COMPANY TO LEAVE DETROIT PLEASE TURN OFF THE LIGHTS...
After the group defied the Court order by sleeping on the Mall last night, an early edition of the Washington Daily News ran a banner headline proclaiming "Vets Overrule Supreme Court," Even the Washington Star, which supports Nixon's Vietnam policy, ran an editorial yesterday decrying the administration's high-handed legal maneuvers to deny the veterans their permit...
...October 22, 1963, a group of 47 people led by two clergymen stood up during a presentation of a zoning question at a meeting of the Omaha City Council and began singing "The Star Spangled Banner." After finishing the National Anthem, they marched around the council chamber singing "We Shall Overcome." The Council president asked them to desist. When they refused, he had them arrested for disturbing the meeting. The clergymen argued in court that their behavior was an act of conscience in the face of the refusal of the Council to enact a civil rights ordinance. Their demonstration, they...