Word: flagging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Whitehall, past Nelson's monument in Trafalgar Square, by the National Gallery, where the flag hung at half-mast, and into the Strand moved the gun carriage, which had borne the regal corpses of Queen Victoria, Edward VII, George V and George VI. Along the way the pavements were thronged with silent watchers, and the white topees of Royal Marines dotted the route like snowdrops...
...pointedly kept Erhard waiting a quarter of an hour while he reminisced with Adenauer about the solidarity of the good old days. But now as Erhard's black Citroën pulled up before De Gaulle's 14th century cháteau at Rambouillet, the German flag was smartly run up the crenelated tower looming over the courtyard, and there was a smiling Charles himself waiting with outstretched arms for the Chancellor. And in some six hours of talk that followed, De Gaulle was all paternal charm and magnanimity...
...added qualification of being a girl changed everything. As I have tried to describe, my sex attracted supporters like a flag of revolution, providing the spark which ignited whatever sort of revolution they were thinking about. My most vehemently revolutionary friends took the ultimate defeat the hardest--some even sent me anonymous accusations of betrayal when I refused to press on to the bitter...
...biggest "strip" number sends five girls onto the stage wearing American football helmets, shoulder pads, low-cut football shoes with white cleats, and not much else. Standing before a 48-sq.-ft. American flag, they do just a little bumping to show how they would perform as middle linebackers-all to the tune of Mr. Touchdown U.S.A...
...Transport figures that it can make money in the world's biggest floating crap game. Being an American firm, it will escape the anti-Niarchos sentiment, but can collect the low-tax, low-wage benefits that Niarchos already enjoys by keeping most of his ships under the Liberian flag. The company's executives are also impressed that Niarchos' Greek competitors are more optimistic about the future of shipping than he is, now have $500 million worth of ships on order. Niarchos himself is building one new supertanker in France (not included in this deal), and he intends...