Word: banners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outraged literary conscience; then possibly revived again, only to be interred--the American literary life makes a new chapter for The Golden Bough. And of course it is not only the readers and critics who support our savage demand for greatnes, who insist that every writer carry a banner with the strange device, 'Pike's Peak or Bust;' it is also the writers themselves...
...story on the bomber's "new letter to a New York newspaper, hinting that he may declare at least a temporary truce." Three days later, when most other New York papers had printed the story, the Journal-American's account finally appeared under an eight-column banner...
...decreed that a man could own no more than two suits, four shirts and four pairs of socks. Kun's strong-arm methods and inflationary money found no favor with the peasants, who boycotted the markets. Meanwhile, Hungary's military and aristocracy were rallying to another banner, that of Admiral Nicholas Horthy, a former naval aide to the Emperor Franz Josef and a naval hero in World War I. Horthy organized a counterrevolution to oust Kun, and Kun was forced to flee to Vienna (he later turned up in Russia, where Stalin executed...
Point No. 4 underlines the organization of evil and the disorganization of good. "Never before has Satan's banner been raised as Communism raises it today," says Lombardi. Point No. 5 stresses the need for "a Christian rebellion to match the rebellion of the Communists. That 472 million Catholics should continue to do nothing is an intolerable situation." No. 6 stresses that the moment for this Christian rebellion is now. Point No. 7 backs this up with papal authority. Point No. 8 calls for individual rededication, and Point No. 9 is repentance for man's individual and collective...
...Astra. In Tokyo, after he clambered up the 100-ft. smokestack of the Central Post Office wearing a Santa Claus costume, unfurled a huge banner touting a nightclub Christmas party and was dragged back to earth by guards, Adman Teruo Sawashige explained to law officers: "I was told to do something extra novel...