Word: flags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...traditional Fourth of July weather. Under hot, clear skies Harry Truman rolled south in a 17-car presidential motorcade along U.S. Highway 29, through the red Virginia farmland, past the old battleground of Bull Run. At every town, little flag-waving crowds gathered to watch him. Near Charlottesville, while 2,000 people assembled in front of the high-pillared porch of Thomas Jefferson's old hilltop home, Monticello, he delivered his Independence Day address (see col. 1). It was a happy, historical week...
...contender who threatened their long dominance in the art. In the National A.A.U. Track & Field Championships last week at Lincoln Neb., he ran up to the mark and heaved his steel-tipped spear into the air. It plunged into the turf shy of the blue flag which marked the world-record distance (258 ft., 2⅛ in.). The thrower, a curly-haired osteopath from Los Angeles named Steve Seymour, 26, had set a new U.S. record...
WASHINGTON, June 30--The House voted today to make the Hawaiian Islands a state and add a 49th star to the flag...
...clothes and marriage feasts. Four hundred bridegrooms took advantage of the cut rate. They faced their brides' proxies (the brides' fathers) and took the marriage vows. While the absent, newlywed wives waited expectantly at home, the menfolk took off to pub-crawl the cafés of flag-decked Omdurman, to feast, sing and dance...
...Fort [Sumter]." He had blocked all Southern conciliation attempts, had succeeded in starting the War Between the States and then laying the blame on the South. But, sputtered Dr. Tansill, the South should not even now think of its "struggle for freedom" as a "lost cause." "The glorious Confederate flag . . . Belleau Wood . . . Patton's crusaders . . , never be furled...