Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...next weekend, I saw him at one of those small, intimate keg parties that serve at least 1000 students every 10 minutes. He asked me if I liked to dance. I said, "Sure, who doesn...
...burn it. Said Don Bracken, the adjutant quartermaster of the Veterans of Foreign Wars chapter in Seattle: "The flag is a symbol of the U.S., and when you destroy that flag, you destroy the principles of our country." Conservative activists such as Patrick McGuigan of the Free Congress Foundation saw the ruling as yet another attack on traditional values. "The Supreme Court has told us schoolchildren may wear printed obscenities on their shirts but may not pray at the start of the school day," he said. "Now it $ tells us the majority may not protect our most precious symbol...
Among the first to jump into this new market niche was perhaps the least likely: Club Med. Once the ultimate swinging adult summer camp, Club Med saw its customers growing up and recognized that many baby boomers did not want to have to choose between their travel fantasies and time with their children. By introducing Baby Clubs, Mini Clubs and children's programs at 40 locations worldwide, Club Med has become a leader in family vacations. Other luxury resorts have followed suit. The Village at Smugglers' Notch in Vermont even offers a money-back guarantee: "If your child for some...
...sighing, delivered the flag decision, George Bush hit the Oval Office about 7:l5. He did not even want to hear about the state of the world from his CIA briefer until he had dealt with flag burning. In the three-minute walk from his apartment upstairs, he probably saw the flag in the Yellow Room or maybe the one in the Blue Room. Maybe he glanced down toward the Mall and spied the 50 flags at the base of the Washington Monument. If he missed all those flags, there was one right behind his desk in the Oval Office...
Handling the flag at that level of power is tricky. Lyndon Johnson quite literally ground his teeth when he looked out his White House window and saw the Viet Nam protesters desecrate flags. But he was a prisoner of jingoism gone sour. Richard Nixon used the Stars and Stripes as a weapon against the marchers, ordering extraordinary displays of flags, pointedly wearing a flag lapel...