Word: flag
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...fears of what might happen in Berlin fizzled out on the rainy, flag-draped Unter den Linden (see INTERNATIONAL). The West had shown again that courage, calmness and determination could save Berlin...
...parade is a shabby sight, but still outstanding in a completely shabby society. Fife & drum corps, the uniform of blue shirts and black trousers, the blue flag with the rising sun are the outward FDJ trappings. FDJ members are enlisted in the Red "people's police" and entrusted with "responsible duties." The FDJ school at Bogensee, near Berlin, is planning a "strategic seminar" for the "pre-military and revolutionary training" of 16-to 18-year-olds. Sizable contingents of FDJ members are already being schooled in guerrilla warfare. Western observers believe that, in the near future, all physically...
...Sunday mornings Monti invariably aroused Borgo's citizens with his cries: "Buy Unita! Read Unita! Here is Unita!" Peasants for miles around knew the peal of Monti's bicycle bell as he flashed by, a huge stack of papers thrown across the handlebars, a small red flag flying on his front mudguard. Those who looked up late saws the word "Unita" in huge letters on the back of Monti's sweater as he pedaled briskly about his business...
...public humiliation Monti and his wife shut themselves in their small house. That night the Montis' lights did not go on, and the house was silent except for the call of a pet blackbird which Monti had taught to whistle Red Flag. After two such nights, the neighbors called the carabinieri, who had to knock down the door to get into the house...
...more than a year, a tight little group of U.S. consular aides had lived and worked in the tower-topped Glen Line Building on Shanghai's teeming Bund. One day last month, U.S. Consul General Walter P. McConaughy hauled down a tattered flag, locked the doors of his offices and left. For the first time in over 100 years, no U.S. flag flew over a diplomatic post on the Chinese mainland...