Word: flag
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This same core of Crimson players had locked horns with the Tigers in last year's Ivy championship series. Harvard entered that weekend with a superior record that included a season sweep of Princeton. But it was the Tiger players who ended up waving the Ivy League championship flag...
...later, during the U.S. Civil War, but both men, in Pynchon's telling, come to believe that they did something wrong to the wilderness. Years later Mason tells Dixon that their work in America amounted to "Campaigning, geometrick as a Prussian Cavalry advance,--tho' in the service of a Flag whose Colors we never...
...meaningful and historically significant is not quite as obvious. But when that day becomes a chance for workers to lawfully build solidarity and challenge their bosses, we get scared. It is time that May 1st once again becomes a vital day in our nation's calendar. Independence Day arouses flag-wavers, Memorial Day brings out veterans and Martin Luther King, Jr. Day gathers those dedicated to equal rights for all. The labor movement is comprised of all three groups, and it is high time they have a proud day all their...
After listening to arguments from both sides, the audience chose the winning team Oxford style, by standing next to the flag of the country they supported...
...American officers and hundreds of civilians squinted into the sunny sky, an F-16 Falcon soared high up, then roared down in a kamikaze dive. A B-2 Stealth bomber flew over the Santiago fairground. A giant C-17 air cargo plane rumbled along the taxiway with a Chilean flag fluttering from a cockpit window. The State Department was furious with the stunts, but the air show accomplished exactly what the Pentagon had wanted. Within six months, Chile and Brazil had sent formal requests to Washington for information on buying F-16s and F/A-18s...