Word: hoist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...board last summer by Mayor Kenneth Gibson, introduced a resolution permitting the predominantly black city's classrooms to fly the red, black and green flag of black liberation.* The resolution passed (in the absence of four of the board's nine members), and Newark schoolchildren planned to hoist the colors...
...that are put together like building blocks on the development sites. The nation's biggest builder, ITT Levitt, operates one of the most modern of these plants in Battle Creek, Mich., turning out one complete house every hour. The modules are hauled to the building sites, where cranes hoist them into place on prepared foundations and workers nail and bolt them together in 20 minutes. Cost of an average town house...
...exposed country on NATO's northern flank. For the past decade, the Soviet navy has staged big exercises in the Norwegian Sea, making the point that Norway, with no land connection to the rest of NATO, is at the mercy of whichever country rules the waves. Johan Jorgen Hoist, research director of the Norwegian Foreign Policy Institute, warns that the Soviets intend "to push their naval defense line outwards to Iceland and the Faeroes," which could turn the Norwegian Sea into what he calls "a Soviet lake...
...ever a horse race was up for grabs, it was the 1971 Kentucky Derby. Hoist The Flag, the heavy winter book favorite, shattered a leg a month before the big race. At least five other top contenders-His Majesty, Droll Role, Executioner, Run The Gantlet. Salem-dropped out because they were injured or were being saved for other races. With no clear-cut favorite in sight, trainers trotted out a string of long shots on the wild chance that one of them might have a good day. And wild it was, as an overcrowded field of 20, only...
...strange race this year. There is off-track betting on the race in New York, neither Hartack or Shoemaker have a mount, and possibly the best horse now in training-Good Behavior-was never nominated and cannot run. Also, the greatest horse to come along in twenty years, Hoist the Flag, must sit on the sidelines, remembered only by fourteen-year-old girls who write him letters at Belmont Park...