Word: flagging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Portuguese groceries featuring sausages and squid and the Santo Christo Society with the Portuguese flag in front slowly give way to Italian East Cambridge, where everyone gathers on the main street to chat. Kids play craps on a side street crosswalk, and every home with a few feet between it and the sidewalk has a garden--lush beds of marigolds, cucumbers and tomatoes...
...tough, burly, street-smart politician, with a promising future and a flair for the spectacular. When New York City Mayor John V. Lindsay ordered the flag atop city hall lowered as a gesture of protest against the Viet Nam War. Matthew J. Troy Jr. appeared on the roof, coat flapping in the breeze, and put the flag back up. Said he: "That's where it belongs...
Public reaction also seemed favorable. Carter proposed having the Energy Security Corp. issue $5 billion in bonds to the public to help finance synfuel development. In one of those bits of self-conscious flag-waving that nonetheless may illustrate the popular mood, the city council of Ga. (pop. 200), Ga., voted to invest half the town's accumulated savings of $20,000 in those bonds...
...ships still slaughtering whales, none is more loathed by conservationists than the infamous Sierra. Flying the Cyprus flag and owned by a shadowy Liechtenstein-based company, possibly with Japanese interests, the pirate whaler ignores all whaling agreements, hunts indiscriminately and makes its kills in a particularly cruel way: instead of the explosive-tipped harpoons used by most whalers, it employs the unarmed type. These do less damage to whale meat but only prolong the agony of the great mammals, often attracting other whales who, in trying to help their beleaguered brethren, are themselves caught. Last week, in a dramatic reversal...
Halfway through his victory lap, a spectator handed Sebastian Coe a hazel branch with the Union Jack attached. Holding the flag high, the slender Englishman rounded the track at Bislett Stadium in Oslo, Norway, while more than 16,000 spectators rose to a standing ovation. But it was not until he reached the athletes' reception center, where his fellow competitors applauded him, that Coe understood what the rumpus was about. Said he: "That really made what I did sink in for the first time...