Word: flagging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After a visit from manager Dick Williams, Culp delivered a meatball to Don Wert who knocked it sharply to right field. Rookie right fielder Joe LaHoud bobbled the ball, two runs scored and the flag sagged...
LAST WEEK, during Martin Luther King's funeral in Atlanta, the flag was lowered over the Georgia statehouse. As Ralph McGill, publisher of the Atlanta Constitution tells the story, Governor Lester Maddox had objected and had kept the state offices open all day. But Georgia's Secretary of State had jurisdiction over the flag, and he ordered it flown at half mast...
...Bruins lost their playoff series in four straight games to Montreal, the Celtics are within one loss of elimination in the NBA's Eastern finals, and the rain gods conspired yesterday to keep the American League pennant flag off the Fenway Park flagpole...
Cooke focuses on minutiae. As he sees it, they tell more about a culture than the big issues that engross most journalists. Reverence for the flag, for instance. Outside of the emerging na tions of Africa, he recently wrote, scarcely any other country shows such a high regard for that symbol. U.S. laws, he was surprised to find, prohibit use of the flag for ornamentation. So when he once looked for a box of candy with a flag on it to send to his mother in Britain, storekeepers regarded him as "some kind of pervert...
...MINNESOTA--Picked by the baseball writers to cop the flag, the Twins may run into pitching troubles. Dean Chance is a good bet to win 20, but his left-handed side-kick Jim Kaat has arm troubles and may not pitch this year. Harmon Killebrew got lost in the Yaz excitement last year, despite his 43 homers--he is a great hitter. Oliva is still around and the Twins have picked up ex-Dodgers Roseboro and Perranoski...