Word: bannering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Taking its name from the Bight of Biafra, a coastal inlet, Eastern Nigeria had finally carried out its threat to secede from Nigeria and become an independent state. Lieut. Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu, 33, the East's regional governor, announced the step and unfurled the banner of his new republic at a 3 a.m. conference, then threw a morning champagne party...
...than his beatnik look, then covered him with feathers; he suffered minor burns. Otherwise the combativeness was limited mostly to vigorous flag-waving and the legends blazoned on hand-lettered signs. There were, of course, hyper-hawks galore, toting signs reading "Bomb Haiphong" and "Drop peaceniks on Hanoi." One banner proclaimed: "Ho Chi Minh is a fink-give him the kitchen sink. If that don't settle the score-give him the kitchen door." But there were also pacifists on the sidewalks who carried neither flags nor banners-just flowers...
...Philadelphia housewife and secretary), "whenever the family wants to needle John, we say, Take a card, take a card.' " Still, determination paid off. At 14, Johnny was a pro. His mother stitched up an impressive black banner emblazoned with yellow Chinese-like characters reading THE GREAT CARSONI, and Johnny played the Norfolk Rotary Club and local parties...
Even a candidate under a neo-know-nothing banner must be positively for something as well. Wallace showered his encomiums on God, states' rights, victory in Viet Nam and, of course, himself. He will probably run for President on a third-party ticket, he said, because all the other potential candidates are too liberal. The promises of conventional conservatives to protect state and local governments from the bogeymen in Washington will not do, Wallace insisted. Said he: "They've got to put the hay down where the goats...
...Vietnam involvement, as you know, marches under the same semantic banner as that under which our Planning Staff marched just twenty years ago this spring, when it faced the problems I have been discussing: namely, the banner of the containment of communism. So similar is the stated purpose that I sometimes a find myself being asked the puzzled question: "But you are the author of the doctrine of containment; why are you not enthusiastic about Vietnam...