Word: flags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hong Kong. Below, off Nine Islands, a scattered fleet of fishing junks spread their lugsails against the sky. Chiu Tok moved forward, ordered Senior Pilot Cramer to surrender the controls to him. One of the passengers rose to interfere. The pirates shot him. Co-Pilot McDuff grabbed an iron flag bar and swung on Chiu Tok. In a panic, the pirates fired wildly at the two pilots. Cramer slumped dead over the controls. As screaming passengers spilled into the aisle, the plane came around in a wide circle. Out of control, it plummeted down into the South China...
Since the Catalina flew the British flag, Wong Yu will be tried in Hong Kong. Since piracy laws don't yet cover air piracy, he will probably be charged with simple murder...
...should put out another flag for TIME'S prizewinning summary of Evelyn Waugh. This is an incisive, savory and spirited estimate...
...mural looked more like a blueprint for a distillery than social propaganda. Orozco had gone abstract with a vengeance, using red streaks and dashes to represent strife, black for death, white for purity and blue for triumph. An eagle and a snake, which also appear in Mexico's flag, dimly inhabited the bright chaos. Struggling up past them into the blue was a pair of lonely human legs. To reflect the sunlight, Orozco had embedded bits of glass into the concrete wall, and added strips of bronze and stainless steel to accent his lines...
...final accolade from the competition came to stocky, talkative Acme Editor Harold Blumenfeld, when the Hearst papers' Picture Boss Dick Sarno walked into the basement office, waving a flag of truce. Would it be O.K. if William Randolph Hearst Jr. came down to see how Acme was doing it? A few minutes later, young Hearst and a flock of lesser Hearstlings came in for a guided tour...