Word: flag
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...anchor in Ancona harbor. On two of them, the U.S. destroyers Glennon and George K. MacKenzie, she wasted no attention, but her heart went out to the black, unkempt hull of the third ship. It was the Soviet freighter Dmitry Pozharsky and from its stern flapped a ragged red flag. With tears in her eyes Palmira called out to her eldest daughter, "Look, Roma, it's come." Then the two scurried off through Ancona's alleyways, routing out 500 women comrades to welcome the Russians...
...ship Palmira spent her morning's earnings on a bunch of red carnations which she carried like a flag at the head of the procession. Singing, the 500 disheveled women marched through the dockyard gates toward the Dmitry Pozharsky. Police tried to tell them that the Russians would not let them on the ship. "You'll see," laughed Palmira...
...wriggle along the warm Mexican gulf coast, fishermen from Mexico, Cuba and the U.S. make long, profitable runs. But the business also has its hazards. One pink-streaked dawn last week, off the coast at Soto la Marina, a Mexican gunboat steamed up beside seven trawlers flying the U.S. flag and trained its guns on them. "You are fishing illegally in Mexican territorial waters!" bawled the skipper. "Follow me into Tampico under arrest...
...Manhattan's flag-and flower-decked Grand Central Palace, British automakers opened their first U.S. show last week. On the first day, 15,000 car-curious New Yorkers crowded in and admired the sleek, rakish models, as different from each other as they are from the standardized design of U.S. cars...
...Lowell House people are being cagey about it too. None of the usual flag-waving and speeches and cornerstone ceremonies which might tip off the wrong people. Not on your life. They are making it look just as much like an ordinary sewer operation as they possibly can. University maintenance men are being used on the job (but only ones who have passed strict security checks). They have even been hiring the Sewer-Kleen squad to come in and look busy. The whole thing is pretty clever...