Word: flagging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...South Ozone Park, Queens, and arrested six coffee drinkers who claimed that they were simply going hunting with the grenades, pipe bombs and rifles in their car. At the same hour, another platoon of policemen moved in on a Westchester County country house, which was flying a U.S. flag with 13 stars not far from its hillside fallout shelter; they found enough arms to fill a truck. In Syracuse, Brewerton, and Bay Shore, L.I., officers flushed more weapons by the score...
...Olin Stephens, creator of Columbia and of the 1964 winner Constellation. In a pinch, Constellation might get a second call. Though she is now owned by The Netherlands' Pierre Goemans, she has been leased as a "trial horse" by the Intrepid syndicate, and can thus fly the U.S. flag. The Aussies may have the jump on U.S. yachtsmen, but it is still a long reach from here to September...
Many of them will sail under the green-striped house flag of the country's No. 1 shipowner: Sigval Bergesen d.y. (for the Norwegian words den yngre, meaning the younger...
...dead of night. As if by Maoist magic, the Gate of Heavenly Peace was instantly floodlit, and a People's Daily "extra" was on the streets within the hour. Squads of People's Liberation Army soldiers goose-stepped through Peking, each man waving a tiny Red flag...
Next target was Eikichi Kambayashi-yama, director-general of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces. He was charged with ordering a lavish homecoming parade-replete with sake, flag-waving schoolchildren, and an official army band-when he returned to his prefecture on Kyushu in September. Kam-bayashiyama last week told the Diet's Cabinet committee: "I am sorry; I will humbly search my heart, and I will be more careful, hereafter." Though the opposition shrieked, "Shame on you! Resign! Resign!", the director-general did not quit...