Word: banners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even as the President stepped off the plane, there was another sign of progress. National Security Adviser Sandy Berger dashed up to Clinton and handed him a newspaper that carried a banner headline announcing that David Trimble, the leader of the Ulster Unionist Party and the First Minister of the new Northern Ireland Assembly, had agreed to hold a one-on-one meeting this week with Gerry Adams, the president of Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army. "This is the headline we wanted to see," Berger told a beaming Clinton...
...Simmons, who plays the Aimee Semple McPherson character, Sister Falconer, confronts Gantry: "Can't you ever tell the truth?" Of course, he can't. Or, to put it more generously, he understands that the truth contains lies and that both are confused in love. "God is love" reads the banner in the revival tent. And love covers everything--sex and salvation. Gantry describes his gift for preaching to a reporter: "Words and ideas come pourin' out like riled-up strangers. I feel so powerful and full of love, I'm about to explode. I do explode. And then I just...
...candidates sat in front of a colorful banner that bore the slogan, "It's not over until you win," and candidates seemed to take the motto to heart...
...last time Hillary Rodham Clinton launched a cross-country bus caravan--during her disastrous 1994 effort to transform health care--she met catcalls at every stop. An airplane overhead towed a banner: BEWARE THE PHONY EXPRESS. In Seattle, protesters mobbed her limousine. "I had not seen faces like that since the segregation battles of the '60s," she later said. "They had such hatred...
...train the spotlight on what the White House calls "America's Treasures"--historic and cultural sites that have been so neglected that many could be lost. She began her trip at the Smithsonian, where the flag that in 1814 inspired Francis Scott Key to write The Star-Spangled Banner is faded and deteriorating. Other stops ranged from the New Jersey laboratory where Thomas Edison came up with more than half of his 1,093 patented inventions, and where 5 million documents, including lab notes and letters, are rotting, to a Pittsfield theater that once saw performances by Sarah Bernhardt...