Word: masted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lindsay has made an error late in the campaign, it was his order that city flags fly at half mast to mark Vietnam Moratorium Day. It was a beautiful thing to witness, but it only added to his alienation from civil servants and blue collar workers. Police cars and buses burned their headlights to show support for President Nixon. It is true such individuals as drove them were not likely to cast their lot with Lindsay in any case, but even for opponents of the war his action raised the specter of another mayor at another time marshalling a different...
During the second period. Wells continued his heroics, defining mizzenmast as the aftermost mast on a ship, but his efforts were in vain. Norfolk established an insurmountable lead when Arthur Devlin named dozens of state capitals and state birds...
...campus, the movement reached into the churches where special services were held. Even the World Series was affected. About 200 students stood outside Shea Stadium distributing leaflets, but inside the flags flew at full mast. Mayor John V. Lindsay had ordered the flags at half mast, but representatives of three armed services in the honor guard for the flag raising refused to go in the field unless the flag was hoisted to the top of the pole...
...arise from a gnat-sized intellect. His gang is so crooked that none of them can drive straight. They wreck cars, argue with each other, assault fat ladies on the Turin buses and infuriate the Mafia by treading on its turf. Throughout, Charlie's eyes remain at half-mast; his lassitude finally lulls the crooks, the polizia-and the audience. Caine and Coward play a splendid game of verbal tennis, but by the final reel the laughs are lost in an anthology of dull and deafening car chases...
...August 3 the principal of the University of Mexico placed the flag at half mast as a symbol that the autonomy of the University had been violated. During this period more students "disappeared." Some were killed, some made prisoners. In an attempt to move the government to action, the buses previously captured were burned. The newspapers (most of which are controlled by the government) branded the movement as "communist-inspired." They traced the movement back to the "communist" pro-Cuba demonstration and claimed that the students were being incited to riot and demonstrate by non-student communist forces. (This...