Word: flags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...roes-six teen-age cadets who died when U.S. troops took Chapultepec in 1847. According to defiant legend, five had stabbed themselves rather than surrender to the invaders from the North. A sixth had leaped to death from a parapet, wrapped in the castle's battle flag...
...scheduled sailing that afternoon. The 20,200-ton John Ericsson, a troopship during the war, is owned by the Maritime Commission and operated by the United States Lines. With damage estimated at more than $500,000, Maritime officials doubted that she would ever sail again under the U.S. flag...
...freighter jampacked with 1,350 Jewish refugees from Europe bent on entering the Holy Land. She had had a long, hard voyage-30 days from Goteborg, Sweden, which she had cleared as a Greek ship (the Ulua), bound for South America. Now she flew the blue-and-white Zionist flag and her bridge carried a freshly painted name: Chaim Arlosoroff (in honor of a murdered Palestine labor leader...
...there were risks; the Babe, among her other great talents, has a sharp tongue. Said she to the crowd: "I know I'm good, but not this good. I have to have room to hit the ball." As the gallery fell back, she took a look toward the flag, waggled once, and sent the ball flying...
...Generally, according to a large body of dogma bordering on idolatry, the flag must be lowered at sundown. But there are many exceptions. It may be displayed after dark for "patriotic effect." It is flown at night from forts and naval vessels which are engaged with an enemy, and also over the east and west fronts of the Capitol Building in Washington, over the grave of Francis Scott Key in Frederick, Md., and over the war memorial at Worcester, Mass., built as an architectural dramatization of the colors...