Word: flag
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...make his appearance. Then the doors opened, the television lights switched on, and Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, 49, strode in. "Feels great," he said as he shouldered his way across temporary plywood flooring toward a stage set up roughly at center ice, with a huge red-and-white Mapleleaf Flag as backdrop. "Feels great...
...gather nearly every Friday in Theater Square, a small plaza tucked behind Yerevan's neoclassical opera house. Around 7 p.m., old women, their heads wrapped in shawls, begin to perch on the steps leading to the theater. Bands of youths, sometimes unruly, wave the orange-red-and-blue Armenian flag, which last flew over the region when it was a free republic in 1920. Later, at about 7:30, a lone bugler approaches a microphone and plays a melancholy tune. When the last note dies, the crowd breaks into a chant: "Artsakh! Artsakh!" -- the historic Armenian name for Nagorno-Karabakh...
...gathered at the church portico to demonstrate support for the Estonian supreme soviet, or parliament, as it joined in a battle of wills with Moscow. Near the cathedral steps, an elderly woman clutched a pennant of blue, black and white, the colors of the long-banned Estonian flag. Students in blue and crimson visored caps unfurled banners. NO TO COLONIAL LAWS read a sign in Cyrillic lettering...
What Dukakis should have done when the Pledge came up was appear with John Glenn and other patriotic icons of the Democratic Party to say the flag was being cheapened by the attack on Supreme Court rulings. On the Horton issue, Dukakis should have had a panel of penologists appearing to explain the nation's furlough systems, their risks and rewards as proved over time, and comparing the various state and federal programs with the Massachusetts one. On the A.C.L.U., Dukakis should have appeared with officers of that organization and joked about all the times they had disagreed...
...saying the Democratic Party has nothing to hide -- unlike the Republicans, who were smuggling Dan Quayle into grade schools where girls could squeal and boys could ask questions as dumb as the answers. By the time Dukakis began to respond, it was by desperately imitating Bush's first flag rallies and by producing mean copies of the Horton ad, substituting victims of the federal furloughs (something Dukakis had earlier said he would...