Word: bannered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...minutes the driver would be surrounded by a cloud of grain chaff and dust that made breathing difficult. In winter it was so cold that Gorbachev had to wrap himself in straw to keep from freezing. He stood it well enough to be awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor in 1949, a rare honor for an 18-year-old. The award, his impeccable political credentials -- peasant background, father and grandfather Communist Party members -- and the silver medal he received upon graduation from high school as second in his class all helped him win a place at Moscow...
...banner headlines in the English press trumpeted the Crockford's affair, Runcie offered no response to the attack. Senior ecclesiastics instantly rushed to the primate's defense, observing that he had been anything but weak in criticizing Margaret Thatcher's treatment of the poor. The essay was excoriated as an exercise of "anonymous, gutless malice" by one furious bishop. "Scurrilous," snapped the realm's No. 2 churchman, Archbishop of York John Habgood. York had his own reason to complain: he and Runcie were yoked in condemnation by Crockford's. In fact, the essay was seen as a bid to derail...
...been shown to millions of ordinary Soviet citizens, many of whom greeted it with standing ovations, is astounding. And that the Soviets chose to distribute the work abroad is a shrewd advertisement for that heady mixture of public relations and public confession that Mikhail Gorbachev has popularized under the banner of glasnost...
Maybe, just maybe, the 1986 women's basketball banner will have someone to hang out with...
Hanging from the rafters in Briggs Cage is a lonely banner. It reads, "Ivy League Champions, 1986 Women's Basketball...