Word: flag
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...flag waving and marching bands and feel-good oratory may not be the best way to remember Jackie Robinson. The tragic measure of his remarkable accomplishments is the hatred and bigotry he was forced to overcome. Fortunately, Arnold Rampersad's Jackie Robinson (Knopf; 512 pages; $27.50) arrives just in time to save the real man from his legend and to cut through the fog of a half-century's worth of nostalgia...
Members of the Cambridge fire and police departments stood outside the church, holding a large American flag and the flags of their respective departments...
...paean to serpents and an encyclopedic review of what's known and not known about them, the book argues that instead of hunting snakes down to near extinction, as we've done with the timber rattler--once glorified on the American Revolution's "Don't Tread on Me" flag--we ought to consider them "worthy of respect" and deserving of "a place in nature...
...million mourners in London, particularly those of the younger generation, for a glimpse of Diana's cortege was the expression of Britons' disapproval of the monarchy, against which Diana had staged a rebellion. The public's views must have shocked the inmates of Buckingham Palace. The lowering of the flag to half-staff under pressure of public opinion was the beginning of the end of an era. AGHA KAFEEL BARIK Karachi...
...dollars in losses, and its mainstay 35-mm color film under attack from lower-priced Fuji Photo Film in the U.S. and a strong dollar abroad, Kodak said its 1997 operating earnings could fall as much as 25% below the results for last year. That marked the third distress flag on Kodak earnings this year and caused the company's stock to plunge $8.25 per share in two days. Kodak, which hit a record high of $94.75 in February, finished trading at $59.63 last week...