Word: emblemed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Long a military emblem, the eagle was adopted by Congress in 1782, partly at the urging of George Washington, who admired its association with courage, freedom, power and immortality. It was opposed by Benjamin Franklin, who complained that the eagle is "a bird of bad moral character; like those among men who live by sharping and robbing. He is generally poor and often very lousy." Franklin preferred the turkey...
...vanished time of simpler Fourths of July. Woodrow Wilson proudly hailed the American flag as "the emblem of our unity." For many Americans on Independence Day 1970, to unfurl, or not unfurl, the front-porch flag is an unsettling dilemma. What was once an easy, automatic rite of patriotism has become in many cases a considered political act, burdened with over tones and conflicting meanings greater than Old Glory was ever meant to bear...
...name, and fly it from their garbage trucks, police cars and skyscraper scaffolds. In pride or put-on, Pop or protest, Old Glory's heraldry blazons battered campers and Indianapolis 500 racers, silver pins and trash bins, glittering cowboy vests and ample bikinied chests. The flag has become the emblem of America's disunity, and, in a land where once only wars abroad set it fluttering in vast numbers, the caricature of a new conflict is raging right at home. The old meaning still persists; hardly any American could escape a thrill of pride when Neil Armstrong planted his vertebrate...
...Information Service library, while another crowd of 800 roared on to the U.S. embassy. Amman police and soldiers were nowhere to be seen. Brushing past six Bedouin guards, the crowd stormed the embassy compound, burned four official cars and replaced the American flag with the green, black and red emblem of Palestine. As a parting gesture, the demonstrators ripped the Seal of the U.S. from the embassy's wall, paraded it through Amman, then trampled on it and smashed...
...foreground, weary pikemen trudge downhill with their discouraged hounds. One man carries a dead fox, symbolically, perhaps. The rebel emblem was a foxtail. But then again, fox pelts are thickest and glossiest in winter; that is the time to take them, hunters say. In the middle distance, a house burns out. Neighbors come running with buckets and ladders, trying to help. However, the whole earth is cold, like a dead body in its winding sheet of snow. The water mill hangs stiff with icicles. The rivers wait, as if struck by some icy thought. A woman with fagots...