Word: banners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Miniature American flags adorn the desks in the council chamber, yellow ribbons decorate the trees and bushes outside City Hall and a banner stating "God bless and protect our troops--bring them home safe," hangs across Mass. Ave. outside the council building...
...fact that the council put up a kind of innocuous banner and it passed nine to zero shows that things have kind of settled in," Ackermann observes. But she adds that when the war heats up the council's unified front may shatter under pressure from the public because of the greater freedom for protest now allowed, and because of the wide spectrum of ideologies Cambridge citizens represent...
...scold on the scene last week was Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev, Gorbachev's chief military adviser, who blasted fast-track reformers for aligning themselves with anti-socialist and separatist forces. His theme -- "Will we lose our homeland?" -- recalled Joseph Stalin's "Great Patriotic War" strategy of wrapping communism in the banner of saving the motherland from Nazi Germany. Akhromeyev wondered if the Soviet Union would now be "dismembered into pieces" subject to the "humiliation" of "dependence on Western governments...
...banner hanging over Mass. Ave. in front of City Hall reads, "God bless and protect our troops. Bring them back safely." Dozens of yellow ribbons adorn the trees and bushes outside the council building...
Like the TV networks, newspapers jumped into the gulf story with all guns blazing: banner headlines, pages of coverage, reams of special features. And like the networks, they have attracted a bigger audience. The San Francisco Examiner, one of the nation's few remaining afternoon dailies, has seen its street sales increase 25% since the start of the war. Big-city dailies like the Washington Post (circ. 781,000) and the Philadelphia Inquirer (circ. 520,000) have sold 10,000 to 20,000 extra copies a day. "Obviously, our readers see things first and very dramatically on TV," says Post...