Word: bannerize
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...Louis: Excitement is mounting to a fever pitch here....At first people hugged their radios, half-confused, half-scared, but elated at the epochal portent of the struggle-elated in the sense that a fighter, once in the ring, feels exhilarated....Theater audiences sing The Star-Spangled Banner lustily, applause drowning out the last strains....Recruits swarming the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard offices-Missouri draft boards announced they can supply immediately 8,000 more draftees in Class...
Saturday night, Arturo Toscanini conducted the NBC Symphony Orchestra in his second and what was to have been his last Treasury program-but it was announced that Maestro Toscanini would be back. Something to listen to was Toscanini's martial rendering of The Star-Spangled Banner: thunderous, romantic and exalted...
...have on your football team, your police force, or in your army: a man who, seeing the light, has ambition, the willingness, yea the guts, to fight for what he considers just, whether it be on a firing line or walking in front of a factory with his banner held aloft...
...deck of our boats like human bombs. Just as they had used those human dynamite charges at Shanghai to break up Chinese barbed wire. Vag shuddered. He tried to imagine himself as the pilot of a bomber, poised high above a sleek, tall ship of war carrying the white banner with the orange sun. He could imagine himself trying to force his muscles to shove the stick forward and aim himself in the fatal dive. Somehow, he couldn't quite work up the nerve. His muscles seemed paralyzed. Life, even in war, is good fun. He didn't worship...
Early one morning Chile's National Symphony Orchestra played the great funeral march from Beethoven's "Eroica" Symphony. The black, copper coffin was placed upon a gun carriage and draped with the single-starred banner of the Republic. Then the cortege moved to Santiago Cathedral, where Archbishop Jose Maria Caro celebrated a two-hour Solemn High Mass for the soul of the man who had fixed low prices for the bread upon which millions of Chileans chiefly depend...