Word: flags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME, Nov. 30, in reviewing Decisive Battles of the U.S.A., says: "Hoisting his large blue battle flag with the white letters DON'T GIVE UP THE SHIP, Captain Oliver Hazard Perry outsailed and outgunned the British on Lake Erie...
...Reader Johnson, Author Fuller and TIME'S reviewer are all on the beam. James Lawrence said the words. Captain Perry's flagship at Erie was named the Lawrence, and so it was fitting that he should have a battle flag with the motto...
Leon Henderson well knew that his streak of sheer cussedness, the broadest in all Washington, had got him into lots of trouble. His bullying and ragging had driven Congress into a rage, yet he still exploded at the sight of a Senator. His OPA had become a red flag to bureaucracy-haters, yet he goaded his critics with the warning of "more red tape" to come. When he took the price control job, he predicted that he would become the most unpopular man in the U.S.-and often it seemed that he had done his best to make his prediction...
...days ago this morning, enemy airmen swooped down on our sleeping, though forewarned, naval base at Pear! Harbor. Not until yesterday were the details of that disgraceful monument to official laxity and stupidity unveiled to the American people. Had the Japes known immediately what they had accomplished, the flag of the Rising Sun might even now be waving over Hawaii. Though we were spared that disaster, which might have knocked us out of the war before we had even started, we suffered defeat after defeat, retreat after retreat. Hong-Kong was the first to fall; them the Philippines...
Recently, Sickle was entertained in Mann's home and gave him the flag. Now Mann has it hanging on the wall in his room, in case something happens to his towels at the Coop laundry...