Word: flagging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...throng, wounded twelve. In the stunned aftermath, the mob picked up a dead 17-year-old boy, laid him along a barbed-wire fence. His mother pushed his tongue back into his mouth and closed his eyes; others draped a crucifix around his neck and a Vietnamese flag over his body. Khanh emerged expressing sorrow, and pleaded, "Please go back to your homes. This is an affair of state...
...accounted for, a score or more were Malaysian traitors recruited in Malaya and trained on either Batam or Sumatra. Several were Malayan Chinese who left evidence that the threat to Malaysia comes not only from Indonesia. Captured with the guerrillas were Red Chinese-manufactured hand grenades, a Chinese Communist flag and political tracts published in Peking...
...better. On Gibraltar, "only part of one squadron was operational, yet the R.A.F. personnel numbered about 1,200." In Singapore, the R.A.F. maintains a full brass band, at a cost of ?85,000 a year. Wrote the Daily Mirror when it found out: "We all know that showing the flag and the mighty oompah, oompah, oompah of the military brass band is a jolly good thing. But who thinks a pile of brass is really worth...
...mainland duties on Puerto Rican imports in 1901 (Downes v. Bidwell) because the Constitution's revenue clauses forbid such barriers only between states. But in that same case, Wray added, the court held that other clauses "providing fundamental personal liberties and basic rights automatically go everywhere with the flag." Thus applicable to territories is the Fifth Amendment guarantee of due process. And "due process" means, among other things, that a criminal law must be clear and specific enough for people to know what it covers...
...tattered dress, presume Popular Army." As the rebels pushed past the consulate, he sent USIA Officer Philip R. Mayhew, 29, off on a "successful, courageous dash" to the airport with two American girl tourists. The firing intensified, and Hoyt messaged: "Pole shot and rope cut by gunfire, but consulate flag still flying." At one point, rebels actually broke into the consulate, and Hoyt prudently retired with his four assistants to the "strong room," leaving a bottle of whisky behind to preoccupy the invaders. The whisky proved more powerful than the rebels' wands: they soon reeled away. By early morning...