Word: flags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Quelle Emotion. The next day France's imperial yacht led a triumphal procession of flag-decked yachts, warships, steamers and sailboats from a score of nations through the rest of the canal. Everybody worried about running aground. "During the entire trip," wrote De Lesseps, "the Empress felt as though her head was circled with fire; every moment she imagined the Aigle grounded, the honor of the French flag compromised, and the fruit of labors lost. Suffocated by emotion, she was obliged to leave the table and we could overhear her sobs." Nevertheless, the voyage was negotiated successfully from...
...flag tells price of nation's weal...
...guys in front of the camera; it'll be better than 'Fort Apache.''' Another voice: '''Fort Apache,' hell. 'Unconquered' will look like a scramble for peanuts compared to this." First voice: "Right! And through it all there'll stand Ingrid all in white, waving her men on with her flag and a different colored sunset behind her for each shot." Second voice again: "It'll be galorous, to coin a phrase. And considering' we ain't got no Indians...
...Little Red Flag...
...this point your first small burst of energy is over and you retire to your chair and wait; when the fish bites the bob and the flag are pulled into the water and begin waving vigorously. Then you have to unlock the fish and rebait the hook. "Bobhouse fishing," a popular variant of this sport, requires a little hut which you erect over the hole so as to keep warm while watching the red flag for action...