Word: flagging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...those in which the authorities share the burden with undergraduate managers, and those which are managed entirely by undergraduates, have been determined by experience, and smoothly and on the whole painlessly demarked. Those who are used to breathe the air of freedom are not likely to wave the red flag of rebellion, and it is seldom that it is waved in Cambridge...
Both the Union Jack and the new South African flag are the official national flags. In English-speaking parts of the Union, they may be flown together; in Dutch-speaking parts, they may be flown separately. This to overcome the sensibilities of British Africanders and Boer Africanders. The flag dispute in South Africa has been the cause of violent recriminations between the Boer and the British population. A dozen emblems have been suggested- only to be fiercely denounced by one side or the other. The Dutch (Boers) would have none of the Union Jack, seeing in that emblem a sign...
...Imperial Conference, which created George V King of the Union of South Africa, General Hertzog has held that the legitimate aspirations of the country and a free and independent unit in the Commonwealth had been met. But he was bitterly attacked by both sides in his stand on the flag issue...
...less difficult task, for the tide of public opinion was running fast, fast enough to promise civil war. A Boer himself, he is yet a keen, sincere imperialist, believing that the manifest destiny of the Union lies in membership in the Commonwealth. While firm for a flag that would embody the Union Jack, he nevertheless urged moderation upon his followers and it was through his tact and diplomacy that he obtained important concessions from the Government and so was able to induce his South African Party to accept the compromise...
...House of Assembly, the Deputies trooped into the tea room where they found a monster "peace cake", dedicated to Minister of Justice Tilman Roos. On its sugar-coated top, in pink icing, were the names of all the Cabinet Ministers. Soon; laughing and munching, the Deputies sank their flag differences in chaff and good-humored badinage...