Word: swastikaed
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...winter, a white student in Kirkland House placed a Confederate flag in her window. After a few days of protest against the flag, another white protest against the flag, another white student in Cabot House put a flag in his window. A Black student in Cabot then placed a swastika in her window...
When Germany unilaterally last month halted all weapons shipments to Turkey, a NATO ally, because some of them had been used against Kurdish rebels, the Turkish reaction was furious. An Istanbul newspaper caricatured Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher wearing a swastika, and Turkish President Turgut Ozal darkly warned that "Germany changed a lot after unification. It is as if it is trying to intervene in everything, interfere with everyone, trying to prove it is a great power. In the past, Hitler's Germany did the same thing." The attack was intemperate and unfair -- it was Turkey that had been behaving...
Pretoria, 4 p.m. Piet Rudolph, 54, a grim, potbellied former policeman wearing a khaki uniform with swastika-like emblems, slips into an empty basement restaurant. Run by a trusted friend, it is one of the places where he can hide if the police are looking for him. He prefers to stay in the shadows with the lights off as he settles into a corner table...
...about him. I think we ought to bring him a peace offering." She found a silver ring, and we went over there. As we walked in I touched his hand and he burst into tears. He didn't know we were bringing the ring, and he had two silver swastika rings on, one on each hand. He took the two rings off and said, "I want you to take these rings; they just symbolize hatred and evil, and I want them out of my life." Julie gave him the other ring and put it on his finger...
...widespread protests and the concomitant condemnation, however, were futile. Long after Townsend had removed the swastika, Kerrigan's banner winked complacently at those she said were trying to infringe on her right to free speech...