Word: bannering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will attack the Kennedy Administration at a time when the president's popularity is extremely high; he will run on foreign issues in a domestic race, and his notoriety has been more to his disfavor than to his credit. His defeat will reflect severely on the right-wing whose banner he carries...
...three months ago ordered the demolition of Prague's 6,000-ton Stalin statue and the transfer of dead Red Boss Klement Gottwald from a glass-topped coffin in a grandiose mausoleum to a less conspicuous resting place (TIME. Dec. 1, 1961). But this month, under the transparent banner of destalinization, Novotny carried out a political execution that Stalin himself would have appreciated...
...also brought a reminder that Jordan's New Frontier is still troubled by old frontiers and old hates. While Wasfi Tal's new government started work, a harmless British eccentric, 56-year-old Ann Lasbury, on a visit to the Holy Land, tried to plant a "Repent" banner on the top of Mount Zion. which straddles the Israel-Jordan border. Fearing a dawn Israeli attack, a Jordanian sentry shot her through the head...
...tour of the White House nursery. The Adzhubeis also took a meal with the Bobby Kennedys, about to leave on a world tour, and with the Salingers. Later, Salinger took them on a boat trip down the Potomac; Salinger's son Stephen, 9, played The Star-Spangled Banner on his violin as the boat passed the George Washington mansion at Mount Vernon...
Vivid as a Flag. Republic of Katanga was its name, and red, white and green were its colors-"Red for the blood shed for Katanga's freedom, white for purity and green for hope," explained Tshombe in an exultant moment. There also were three Maltese crosses on his banner-in the burnished red-brown of copper. The man was as vivid as the flag. He dressed his mounted honor guard in plumed helmets and blazing tunics bought secondhand from the Garde Républicaine in France, and seated them on broken-down nags sent up from Rhodesia...