Word: banners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...direct reference to Quemoy, but the thousands of "study groups" convened to discuss the new publication were quick to get the point. "Under the brilliant leadership of Chairman Mao," proclaimed a military school teacher, "we have gone from victory to victory. So long as we hold aloft the Red banner of Chairman Mao in ideology, we shall always triumph." In other words: don't ask questions; Mao has always been right before, and he must have something up his sleeve this time...
Last week a red and white banner across the entrance gate to East Berlin's National Gallery proclaimed: TREASURES OF WORLD CULTURE SAVED BY THE SOVIET UNION. Ninety freight cars had already been unloaded at East Berlin's Museum Island, and 210 more carloads were on the way. Already back in place at the National Gallery and its companion museum, the Pergamon: ¶ The original Ishtar Gate and Procession Street built for King Nebuchadnezzar II in Babylon about 580 B.C. and having reliefs of lions, bulls and dragons in white on blue tiles. ¶ Thirty...
Robert Merrill, 40, baritone. Before he reached the Met in 1945 via the Auditions of the Air, Brooklyn-born Bob Merrill crooned with bands on the borscht circuit, made a famous recording of The Star-Spangled Banner for Fox Movietone News (from which he got the nickname "The Star-Spangled Baritone"), pitched a few seasons of semi-pro baseball. He still sings regularly in Las Vegas nightclubs, once explained his devotion to opera: "I'd like to be a comedian, but their material wears out so fast. Me, I've got the best writers in the world writing...
...Guard band played the funeral dirge, a large Red banner was nailed upon the wall with the letters in gold, "The leaders die, but the cause lives...
Everything lay under an acrid fog of blue smoke let off by the torches and flares. The assembled marching firemen. Cars hanging with streamers, pasted with signs. Banner-strung lamp posts. Photographers. Motorcycle policemen. Loudspeaker trucks. The crowds were restless. It was time...