Word: gately
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...welcomers gathered, waving American flags and yellow ribbons. A few snapped to attention and saluted as the motorcade sped by. Navy ombudsman Denise Allshouse said, "This is just the start of the celebration. The major welcome will be when that big, white, beautiful ship comes home through the Golden Gate in a few weeks...
...allied units had reached the Euphrates as early as Monday; by Wednesday morning they were established in enough force to prevent further crossings. British units cut the main Kuwait City-Basra highway early in the day; ! American Marines had reached it farther to the south the previous afternoon. The gate had slammed shut on Saddam's forces in Kuwait. Their escape routes were broken. Encirclement was complete...
...need for such an exorcism must have been felt by the anonymous U.S. Marine who, shortly after Kuwait City's liberation, paid a call on the deserted American embassy. He carried with him an old American flag, which he left at the gate of the embassy compound. Asked why by an Associated Press reporter, the Marine said the flag had been given to him 23 years earlier by a dying comrade in Vietnam. For the Marine in Kuwait City, and for many Americans who took justified pride in the U.S.'s military performance in the gulf, a circle had been...
...bigger than 1.5 in. by 2 in. would not violate its strict standards. A Worcester, Mass., court officer fought for and won the right to wear a yellow ribbon below the breast badge on his uniform, unless a particular judge decides it might disrupt his courtroom. When a gate attendant at Miami's Opa-Locka Airport was told to remove her yellow ribbon, she refused, saying, "If they want my ribbon and my flag, they'll have to take my shirt with it." The county manager quickly clarified the policy against political paraphernalia. Said he: "I believe the display...
...materials gathered for Visible represent an exceptional resource at Harvard. Prior to this project, there was hardly any documentation or criticism on visual art by "lesbian artists" available for researchers. The financial sponsors and especially Women's Studies and Open Gate: A Fund for Gay and Lesbian Life at Harvard, supported this project because they understood that Visible (slide-show, soundtrack, display of printed works, discussion groups, and eventual archive) would make a lasting contribution toward an understanding of the various political goals of those who in all their diversity identify themselves as "lesbian artists...