Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...continent. Happily for him, Commander Byrd was so impressed by his courage and excellent stamina that he has given him permission to stay with the expedition. Two white boys who stowed away were put off ere the ship got out of the harbor because sailors heard them arguing. The black boy goes. The promoters of the first trip to the moon had better examine their rocket carefully if they would make sure that no adventurous Negro is aboard...
...same afternoon a similar whizz-smash befell H. H. Prince Ibrahim of Egypt and retinue of five, near Montélimar. Death spared all, but bruises raised big spots of black & blue. Tout Paris was inclined to mock at Ibrahim,-at Cocobo, -even at "little girls" all ruefully bruised and tender. Ere nightfall, however, Tout Paris caught breath over a third accident...
...ominous black standard of Afghanistan fluttered and crumpled down, last week, for the last time, from a tall flagstaff atop the National Assembly in Kabul...
...command from His Majesty King Amanullah, a new standard rose and streamed aloft. It was striped vertically black, red, green...
...Black! The old emblem was symbolical of Afghanistan's oppression by foreign peoples. In the new flag the black stripe represents our past...