Word: flags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From a purely political view, what do these alternatives mean? The food that will be sent to Europe following the Student Council drive early in March cannot be termed simply as "Following the flag." It is cruel to starving humans to weigh them as pawns in the great gambit for ideological control of key areas. But this food remains American food, distributed to highly sensitive and alert students in areas where food means more than dialectics. If we are not concerned over what happens to the young men of east Europe and China, there are others who will thrive...
...Irish. In the imperial scheme cricket has followed the flag (some Englishmen argue that there would have been no Irish problem if the Irish could have been induced to learn the game). And, contrary to U.S. curbstone opinion, cricket is not to be confused with croquet...
Wearing his famous broad-billed cap, perched on a high stool on the flag bridge facing aft ("only a damn fool faces into the wind"), Mitscher directed the mightiest naval unit in history in a soft, flat monotone that belied the compressed fury with which he fought. He was never known to get excited, even when Kamikaze flyers almost literally blew him off the flagships Bunker Hill and Enterprise...
...National Assembly and Supreme Court, waited more than an hour before deciding that the U.N. Secretary-General had stood them up. Lie, reportedly annoyed when his official chauffeur got lost or mislaid, proceeded to Cuba. Panamanians were most piqued because they had ransacked the neighborhood for a Norwegian flag for the occasion...
Pennsylvanians, though, were "very loyal to the 'old flag.' ... I rode through [Chambersburg] with General Kemper, at the head of his brigade. The windows and porches were filled with women who were covered with flags, and each one had a flag, waving it over our troops as they passed. . . . The men exercised forbearance and seldom replied, but [one said] to a very bold-looking girl . . . with a great flag pinned and hanging over her shoulders and over her bosom: 'Look here, Miss, you'd better take that flag off! . These old rebs are hell on breastworks...