Word: flagging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lack of patriotism which lay behind the order to leave the American legation; it was experience of the history of more than one recent crisis and an exact knowledge of the unimportance of American interests and the importance of avoiding friction. The so-called "insult to the American flag" has served to prove not only the value of that experience, but also the unchanged sensationalism of American newspapers...
...always been the policy of this government not to interfere in the local and internal affairs of any of the people who happen to be under our flag, but certainly so flagrant a case as this which apparently is receiving no remedy in that island, makes us question the worth of American institutions as being adapted to the people of Puerto Rico and to the conditions under which they live...
...grumble, the colonial arrangement usually works much more to their profit than to the profit of the U. S. Said Dr. Gruening last week: "Nothing could be further from the spirit and purpose of this Administration than to keep a people, not consulted originally about its annexation, under our flag if they do not desire to be there. ... If, on the other hand, they decide to remain American citizens under the American flag it will settle the question which has agitated the island during recent years...
...night, and the three were huddled together in that slouchy "morning after the night before" fashion when suddenly the snooping nose of a new black Ford loomed into the mirror above the windshield. Now all Chevrolet owners know what that meant. It was just like waving a red flag before a bull. The driver's hot sporting blood surged up his spine; he awakened from his spell of dull lethargy and gave the accelerator a little push. "The gap between them widened slightly and then filled up again. The Ford again showed signs of passing him, but the game Chevrolet...
...Flag Day. Shrewd Stagemanager Goebbels arranged his campaign week to lead up to two great climaxes centring around Adolf Hitler's last two speeches, the first in the Krupp Steel Works at Essen, the second in the exhibition hall at Cologne. Every German had his stage directions. At 3:45 o'clock on the afternoon of the Essen speech radios all over Germany echoed the shrill yip of Minister Goebbels: "RAISE FLAGS!" On that instant from every flagstaff in Germany and from the windows of thousands of little cottages unrolled the swastika banner. Then followed the voice...