Word: flags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Buckingham Palace, just as she might have in some U.S. Middletown, the heiress to the throne had her own troop of Girl Guides, the 7th Westminster Company, organized by children of Palace staffers. The Queen gave the girls a company flag, and in time Elizabeth worked her way up to be patrol leader-"a distinction," her official biographers carefully point out, "achieved only through merit." At Windsor Elizabeth was the Bosun of the Kingfisher Patrol of the Sea Rangers (seagoing Guides), and woe betide any Ranger who came aboard the flagship (a whaleboat presented by King George) like a landlubber...
...legendary capital, Yenan, filtered northward to other centers of Red strength. Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist troops, commanded by stocky, dependable General Hu Tsung-nan, marched in, took down the huge poster of Communist Chieftain Mao Tse-tung flapping by the south gate, raised the twelve-rayed sun flag of the Government. After ten years, Yenan ("Permanent Peace") had fallen...
Lining both sides of main arteries within a quarter-mile radius of the Kiosk, the meters will pay off at the rate of 12 minutes per penny, or a whole hour for a nickel. When the flag pops up in the glass meterhead at the end of an hour, the parker must either move to another meter or pay a $1 fine, with fines for subsequent offences depending upon what humor the judge...
...Frederick, Md. and that if he had, Barbara could not have leaned out the window to speak her impassioned lines ("Shoot, if you must, this old gray head . . .") as she was bedfast at the time. Snapped Whittier: "It seems to be admitted that Barbara Frietchie had a Union flag in her house; if she did not show it on that occasion, so much the worse for Frederick City...
Middlebury provided the day's surprise in edging a favored Dartmouth squad by turning in a time total of 782.1 seconds. The Big Green's hopes were shattered when their ace entry, Chris Bugge, missed one flag in his breaknock run down the slope...