Word: bannered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rather than the more familiar mythological subjects of Greek art, the panels depict what appear to be scenes from the lives, deaths and funeral rites of the occupants of the tombs. One, for instance, shows a helmeted warrior seated on a powerful black horse and grasping a banner. He is met by a heavily rouged woman holding a mirror to his face to capture the image of his soul. Another shows a white man with a carefully trimmed beard boxing with a Negro. The black man is getting the worst of the fight, and there is blood on his back...
CONGO REPUBLIC The Hammer and the Hoe Not even Guinea, for all its flirtations with Moscow and Peking, had gone so far. In Brazzaville last week, the new banner of the Congo Republic was fluttering atop flagpoles, boasting a crossed hammer and hoe (the sickle, it seems, is not used in equatorial Africa) surmounted by the traditional gold star. The country was rechristened the People's Republic of the Congo-not to be confused with the former Belgian Congo, now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo. National assembly functions were taken over by a central committee consisting...
...next morning, First Methodist was a whole new scene. A banner proclaimed, "The Doors Are Open to the People's Church." Posters using Black Panther rhetoric announced: "When One of Us Falls, 1,000 Will Take His Place" and "All Power to the People." A door bore an insigne of a hand clutching a rifle, based on the Lords' chosen symbol: Jesus with a rifle slung across his back. Inside, the militants were dispensing food and setting up classes in a "school of liberation...
...Copies of the New York Times, carrying banner headlines and complete coverage of the events from correspondents around the world, are sold out early to souvenir hunters. Knicks Top Suns in Late Rally, 117-111. Before Capacity Crowd-In Garden...
...hometown boy, and instead of taking pride in him, [the Sun] acts like it is ashamed of him." The Hearst papers got a seat without applying for one. With spots reserved for U.S. News & World Report, the Chicago Tribune and a correspondent for the Nashville (Tenn.) Banner, the Greenville (S.C.) News and the Jackson (Miss.) Daily News, the press delegation seemed safe from a leftward tilt...