Word: flags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...regime over Jerusalem, called for a strong stand against Israel's truculence. Ben-Gurion's government meanwhile was carrying on independent negotiations with Jordan's cunning King Abdullah, whose Arab Legionnaires patrolled Jerusalem's Old City, a stone's throw from the blue & white flag flying over Ben-Gurion's headquarters in the Eden Hotel...
...became a convert to the army when bearded, Godfearing General Booth was shocking England with his evangelism. Her daughter Mary Ivison was also a convert who met and fell in love with Joseph Pugmire, another Salvationist. Joseph was sent to plant the army's blue-bordered, blood-red flag in Kansas City, Mo., and Mary later followed and married...
...Campaigner Pugmire. William Booth had a horror of holier-than-thou, middle-class respectability. A fear of respectability is reflected by the commissioner, who is the true son of an evangelist, even if he was never a rousing evangelist himself. The legend "Blood & Fire" on the army's flag has lost some of its meaning. The army, taking on respectability in spite of itself, has acquired property, a standing in the community, a connection with Community Chests, advisory committees of distinguished citizens. It has lost some of its old, hoarse, street-corner fervor...
...Yard, Weld North defeated Mower Hall by a 40 to 18 score and clinched the League flag. Matthews North conquered Grays by a 24 to 21 count in winning the American League championship. The two teams will meet this afternoon at 5 p.m. to decide the inter-league championship...
...stage seemed set for another Communist show trial. In the dock sat the accused, ready to plead guilty and to confess. On the courtroom wall, over the grey head of the comrade president of the tribunal, hung the Red star emblem with hammer & sickle, and under the flag was the portrait of the all-powerful leader. But the face of the leader seemed to have changed: it was not the slyly benign mask of Joseph Stalin; it was the square, rather brutal face of Josip Broz Tito...