Word: flag
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remote areas, is on the way. In Iwano village in southern Honshu a 60-year-old farm wife named Yori Oka has been waging a highly successful "Down with Feudalism" campaign. She organized cooking schools, sewing classes, formed a Village Women's Association, and finally thought of Green Flag Day. Once a month the Women's Association plants a green flag in the village square, and beneath its protection the daughters and even the daughters-in-law take a day of rest...
...last week Mrs. Oka's green flag fluttered in Iwano's square, and not a woman was to be seen in the rice fields, the woodsheds or the poultry pens; instead they strolled about the streets, rested in bed or chattered happily away over cups of green tea at Mrs. Oka's house. Iwano's 500 men bustled about cooking lunch, washing dishes, and bending wearily over the rice fields. The mothers-in-law, unhappiest of all, sat back grimly, arms folded, refused either to work or consort with the archtraitor Oka, who had incited such...
...Taimur, Sultan of Muscat and Oman, appealed to Britain for help in subduing the rebellious and elusive Imam of Oman, no one thought that the affair would require much more than a few passes by R.A.F. fighter planes to scare the rebels into pledging loyalty to the red flag of the Sultan. In the House of Commons, Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd was the very model of long-distance assurance. "It would be an example of military futility," he intoned, "to seek to employ ground forces in those temperatures in desert areas...
This left Nizwa, still flying the white flag of the Imam, for the British and the Sultan's troops to conquer. But no one was sure that the Imam was really in Nizwa. Perhaps he was at Izz. But no, when the British got there, he was not to be found. In fact, no one knew positively where...
...week's end Nizwa surrendered at the sight of a line-up of Muscati infantrymen, supported by Trucial Oman Scouts and British regulars. The Muscatis, wearing plaid skirts and checkered headcloths, were flanked by British armored cars and machine-guns. Down came the white flag of the Imam, up went the red flag of the Sultan. But holed up in the Oman mountains other rebel forces were still hiding and the Imam himself was yet to be found-or even heard from...