Word: bannered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Three weeks ago Gillberg publicly charged el Sayed with lying about his credentials, and a national furor erupted. HE LIED read a banner headline in Expressen, a Stockholm tabloid. Afraid that his new notoriety would hurt Fermenta, el Sayed agreed to give up day-to-day management of the company. But he is hardly ruined: his 43% share of Fermenta's stock is still worth nearly $350 million...
...military promotion system, charged a report circulated anonymously by alumni of the Philippine Military Academy, "rewards boot-licking incompetence and banishes independent-minded professionals and achievers." At academy homecoming ceremonies a month later, 300 alumni from the 14 most recent graduating classes openly declared their feelings by hoisting a banner that read UNITY THROUGH REFORMS, with many sporting T shirts that proclaimed WE BELONG...
...thought of games at Briggs, with the good ole Harvard band straggling in minutes before tipoff to crank out the Star Spangled Banner--sometimes...
...hoisted on the shoulders of a group of well-wishers. Suddenly the group was surrounded by a crowd of Orthodox men, bearded and wearing black suits, protesting against the Mormons, who are building a branch of Brigham Young University on the Mount of Olives. The demonstrators raised a banner ^ addressed to him: SPEAK UP FOR THE RELIGION THAT YOU SACRIFICED YOURSELF FOR. Shcharansky looked troubled as he proceeded to pray at the sacred Western Wall of the Old City. He did not appear eager to become embroiled in a religious or political controversy. When asked later to comment...
...glistened on the stone centaurs that guard the western end of Berlin's Glienicker Bridge, where a boldly lettered sign warns passersby, YOU ARE LEAVING THE AMERICAN SECTOR. On the eastern side of the 420-ft. crossing, the Soviet hammer-and-sickle flag and the black-red-and-gold banner of the German Democratic Republic flapped in the chill breeze off the ice-clogged Havel River. Most of the time the iron span in the forested Wannsee district of southwestern Berlin is a bridge leading nowhere, unused except for the occasional official vehicle...