Word: bannering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They soon found out. Convinced that he could only achieve national leadership at the head of a multiracial united front, Abdul Rahman muted hotly anti-Chinese sentiment in his own Malay party, stumped the country urging Chinese and Indian leaders to unite behind him under the banner of a new organization called the Alliance Party. To finance his crusade, he sold his expensive cars and most of his other property. "I worked like mad, living andy sleeping on trains," says the Tunku. "I was often home only one day a month." But Abdul Rahman's zeal paid...
Raising the Flag. It all began peacefully enough with a banner-waving parade toward Westminster,, where workers' leaders were determined to carry personal protests to their M.P.s. Awkwardly at first, many fingering the cloth caps that are the traditional badge of the British workingman, they stood talking until the House of Commons' big Central Lobby was jammed, while a surging mob of workers still outside jostled impatiently to get through St. Stephen's doorway...
...gave a cha cha cha rhythm to their chant of his name: "Kenn-e-dee! Kenn-e-dee!'' Women swooned while sighing "El macho divino" ("The divine he-man"). Carried away by his presence at Mass in San Jose Cathedral, the organist thumped out The Star-Spangled Banner, The Battle Hymn of the Republic, The Stars and Stripes Forever, and Yankee Doodle. Even the fact that his nose, after a weekend in Palm Beach, was pink and peeling, seemed to add to his appeal. Cried a teen-age girl in ecstasy: "Tiene la nariz roja...
Standing beneath a big yellow banner proclaiming FARMERS UNION-ABUNDANCE, PEACE, FREEDOM, Freeman gave his audience some pats on the back: "Most city folks are not aware of the benefits they derive from your success." He gave himself some too: "I am pleased that we have made real progress in the last two years." What he said was the familiar fodder of New Frontier farm speeches, but he said it with plenty of oratorical zing, and his audience interrupted 24 times with applause...
...Then, in 1917, he was accepted by an exhibition of independents, and French Painter Marcel Duchamp, the sensation of the Armory, declared an Eilshemius nude the finest painting of the 2,000 in the show. Artists such as Painter Joseph Stella and Sculptor Gaston Lachaise took up the Eilshemius banner...