Word: emblems
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Impossible to get there? The emblem on Legson's school uniform bore the words: I WILL TRY. When Legson was about 16 or 20-nobody really knows when he was born-he decided...
Speaking to a jampacked rally at Kalutara, south of the capital city of Colombo, greying, bespectacled Senanayake wore a green shirt (his party color) and gripped an elephant tusk (the elephant is his party emblem). He cried, "We must beat this government. If it continues, it will spell disaster for Ceylon!" Another antigovernment candidate derided the "socalled golden brains" of Madame Bandaranaike's Marxist Cabinet members and said they were "full of cow dung...
...glad I did. It was a paratrooper's emblem. "Six months of hell," I said...
...House of Com mons, and 38 to 23 in the Senate, Canada's Parliament approved what Liberal Prime Minister Lester Pearson calls a flag for all Canadians. All that remained was for Queen Elizabeth to proclaim the new flag as the official emblem of Canada. Then down will come the old Red Ensign with its British Union Jack in the corner. And over Ottawa's Parliament Hill will fly the new banner -a single red maple leaf on a white field with heavy red bars on either side...
...half his time to Diefenbaker, who refused, raging: "When the Greeks produce gifts, we recognize what they mean." Pearson was barely audible above the Conservative cat calls, but he got out a line that will join him in the history books as the man who gave Canada its own emblem: 'This is a flag for the future...