Word: flag
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...blue and white flag flying from University Hall announces, the Harvard Model United Nations (U.N.) began Thursday with nearly 1000 college students from 85 colleges participating in the four-day event...
...when the day was over--when they awarded the gold medal to Eric Hidden and raised the American flag while the official Olympic Band played The Star Spangled Banner--the crowd was momentarily stunned by emotion, and than broke into ecstatic cheering...
...disco on Christopher St. This time, Pacino does not refuse the guy who grabs his hand and pulls him to the dance floor. He moves furtively at first, apprehensive. Male bodies fill the cave, twisting, punching, kissing, biting, stroking, tearing. On the wall, a giant neon American flag blinks omnisciently. A man in an executioner's leather mask watches from the side. Pacino's partner spins and flicks his blond curls. The drum pounds louder, the montage quickens, the American flag flashes, glaring like a Puritan God, a caretaker of the Judaeo-Christian sex ethic, a last warning before...
Last week Fell worked on final details in an office that was as modest as the man himself. An Olympic flag hung from a small pole on one wall. As he talked, he signed the certificates that will be given to the top finishers. Lake Placid's motto for the Games has been "An Olympics in Perspective," and he said he felt that the organizers had lived up to the challenge. The Games would have few of the flashy trimmings of other years, but the facilities for the competition were first-rate. That was the point...
Meanwhile, the team from Taiwan was fighting in the courts for the right to use its own flag and anthem, a right denied by the International Olympic Committee when it voted to accept the team from mainland China. On another front, I.O.C. began considering the request from the U.S. Olympic committee, made at the behest of President Carter after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, to cancel, postpone or move to another site the Summer Olympics scheduled for Moscow...