Word: banners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...emerged from a coma. After the 46 years of suffering inflicted by the corrupt Somoza dynasty, a new spirit ruled the land. From the flagpole by the bunker in Managua where exiled Dictator Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza Debayle had commanded a bloody last stand fluttered the red-and-black banner of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (F.S.L.N.). Even the sounds were different Gone was the stream of anti-Communist propaganda that had once poured from Somoza's radio station. In its place came round-the-clock broadcasts of revolutionary songs and tributes to General Cesar Augusto Sandino, the legendary nationalist...
...among the shacks and shanties that are home to more than 1 million people in the black township of Soweto, near Johannesburg. Earlier, Jackson had addressed a group of residents at Crossroads, a famed squatter community on the outskirts of Cape Town. He was greeted there by a banner reading WELCOME HOME, NOBLE SON OF AFRICA...
...busty woman tried to seize Andrew's attention. Ignoring the words TAKE MY BODY emblazoned on her T shirt, he discreetly averted his gaze. Two teen-age girls got more of a rise from the prince by standing outside church on Sunday morning and holding up a banner that read HI ANDY, STOP ROUND FOR SOME COFFEE. He walked over to the startled girls and gallantly responded, "I'm terribly sorry, but I haven't the time...
...Post was one of few major newspapers to put the entire quote in a banner headline. Most of the others were not far to the posterior. The Los Angeles Times and Chicago Sun-Times managed to get the crucial word in a headline, and the full quote in the story. "We don't bandy about with words if they come from the President," said Los Angeles Times Managing Editor George Cotliar. "Without [the quote] there is no story...
...early 50s, the Cold War dominated our consciousness. It was a time of distrust of social idealism that could be interpreted as being "soft on communism." The University had to defend its essential function of free inquiry, exploration of truth against those who brandished bureaucratic axes under the banner of patriotism. The University bent, but did not break, thanks to leadership from Paul Buck, the Provost, and Nathan M. Pusey '28, who became president. Buck called me into his office in 1953 when the issue was firing a tenured professor for his communist affiliation. "Stay here until I come back...