Word: masted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...University of California in Berkeley last week, flags were flown at half mast, many students wore black arm bands and a large-sign on one fraternity house asked: "Are the Doors of Paradise Forever Closed...
...personal Notebook would be as breezy as, say, the Autobiography of Anthony Trollope (in which the old fox hunter posthumously appalled his huge public by admitting with a gay cackle that money had always been his muse). But where other note-makers have nailed their colors to the mast and let their hair down to the last soiled lovelock, urbane Maugham has preferred to soak his colors in bleach and pin his hair in a tight bun. His Notebook (the whittlings-down of "fifteen stoutish volumes") contains mostly workaday jottings from 1892 (when he had just started to write...
...five-day cruise through the Dutch canals we found "Heineken's Bier" superior to any brand on tap at Jim Cronin's. Judging by our boat, however, the country's sea power is declining. "The "Swallow IT" was a 20-foot converted life boat with a lowerable mast which left the vessel still too high to go under bridges, an engine which required the constant attention of two deafencd men, and a stove that never worked. But the scenery and the people made up for the lack in the transportation...
...Prime Minister tugged hard, waxing more & more furious. He summoned the organizer of the meeting, a sheepish-looking yokel. "Can't this village even fly the nation's flag efficiently?" Nehru railed. "I will wait here until I am able to unfurl the flag on that mast." He did, and missed lunch in the process. But at last the pulley was repaired and the flag unfurled. Nehru departed growling: "I must suffer for your inefficiency...
...minute hand neared midnight on the last day of Congress' session, Peronista deputies sang the Argentine national hymn and then boisterously burst into Peronista Boys. Said one Radical deputy as he surveyed the week's work: "I move that the Argentine flag be flown at half-mast...