Word: ensign
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...buoyed by a message from President Hu Jintao who announced that the liftoff was "the glory of our great motherland." Then, Yang fished around and produced another flag, this time a pale blue one bearing the emblem of the United Nations, and held it up beside the red Chinese ensign...
...Ensign Jeffrey C. Munns ’03 spoke about his work with the Harvard National Defense Forum, the on-campus military affairs forum. Munns expressed gratitude that this year, unlike years past, Harvard cadets and midshipman were allowed to list their ROTC commitment in the yearbook...
...them attract minority votes. And the damage among some white voters could be even greater: Lott may have tainted his party among educated suburban professionals and managers who are sympathetic to the G.O.P. on economic issues but are repulsed by any hint of coded appeals to prejudice. Senator John Ensign, a Nevada Republican, says of Lott's misstep, "It will take a lot of work for us to negate...
...well as the U.S. - includes T'Pol, a Vulcan female who is shrink-wrapped in a cat suit that probably blocks circulation but beautifully accentuates the bosom that once landed actress Jolene Blalock, who plays T'Pol, on the cover of Maxim. The other woman on the bridge, Ensign Sato, has had trouble doing her subservient job - she's a translator - because she panics. Some Trekkies are annoyed. Earlier this year, feminist Donna Minkowitz argued in the Nation magazine that "["Enterprise"] is the first Star Trek really interested in punishing women." That's an exaggeration, but Trek does seem...
America was on the move, and the 24-year-old Navy ensign, who only a year earlier had been a Harvard graduate student in American history, was at the epicenter of secrecy and action: the Map Room. On the White House ground floor--dim, guarded, with no carpets that could tangle the wheels of F.D.R.'s wheelchair--the Map Room had been the trophy room, a small area for official gifts to the First Couple. Roosevelt had ordered the secure chamber after admiring Winston Churchill's portable map ensemble, brought to the White House when he first visited, just after...