Word: flagging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...number of the hecklers followed the 11 peace marchers out of the business area. Riding in a truck which carried a large "Bomb Red China" sign, they taunted the marchers with an American flag and then briefly set upon them...
...fastened a paternal gaze on the television cameras and intoned: "Both sides of the negotiating parties in the airlines strike are here with me to report that they have now reached agreement on the terms of a settlement." Lyndon had done it again: he had squeezed elbows, waved the flag and presto, solved yet another labor deadlock. Thanks to the old Johnson magic, the strike of 35,400 members of the International Association of Machinists against five major U.S. airlines was about to end after 22 costly, frustrating days...
...Flag & Tennis. Born near Brussels in 1899, Spaak was the son of a writer and director of the Brussels opera; his mother was the first woman to become a Belgian senator. He was always something of a political contradiction. Entering Parliament in 1932 as a radical Socialist, he thought nothing of spending a day waving a red flag at a Socialist demonstration, and then retiring to the tennis court or the plush comfort of Brussels' exclusive Leopold Club...
...Repco that he designed and built himself, Jack allowed Clark to take the lead, then forced such a fast pace that the cooling system in Jimmy's overworked Lotus gave up. Clark limped in third. Averaging 100.6 m.p.h., Brabham beat Britain's Graham Hill to the checkered flag by a full lap. Asked a Dutch reporter: "Don't you think it is extraordinary and astonishing that you are leading in this world championship at your age?" Replied Jack...
...Hubert Humphrey smashed a champagne bottle against the flag-draped hull, and the 425-ft. U.S.S. Will Rogers slid down the ways into the Thames River. Thus the 41st-and last -nuclear-powered Polaris missile submarine was launched last week in the General Dynamics Corporation's yards at Groton, Conn. For the U.S., it marked the end of a historically successful effort to develop seapower able to strike any target on earth...