Word: flagging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dakota in buckskin jacket and pants and full-feathered headdress, the group ignored a statute banning demonstrations outside the court. Indian women let out war whoops. Others cried: "Earl Warren, you better come out now." Demonstrators defiantly sprawled over imposing marble statues, splashed in fountains, hauled down an American flag and smashed five windows at the side of the building, though leaders of the march absurdly blamed the press and "the CIA" for the breakage. Still another group of 500 demonstrators marched into the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, refused to budge until HEW Secretary Wilbur Cohen came...
...toward apparently certain victory in a new STP turbine when-just 22 miles from the finish-a $12 fuel-pump shaft sheared off and the engine died. Granatelli could only watch helplessly as New Mexico's Bobby Unser, driving a piston-engined Eagle, swept triumphantly past the checkered flag...
Then in 1936, another great symbol of state was threatened by the Lampoon, this time the Supreme Court. On May 8, 1936 the nation awoke to find the official flag of the U.S.S.R. flying over the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., with a copy of "Down With Capitalism," a recent issue of the Lampoon, at the base of the flagpole. Representative Tomas Blanton (D.-Tex.) literally rushed to the rostrum of the House "to warn his colleagues and the country," "suspecting that the flag might mean the signal for social revolution," according to the Boston Post...
...unrest and inflation?are endemic to most of Europe. Indeed, until three weeks ago, European students elsewhere had been far more ferocious than the French ones. Now, in an ominous emulation, Belgian students last week seized the university in Brussels, and New Left students in England placed the black flag of anarchy atop the London School of Economics. Warned the West German weekly Rheinischer Merkur: "France does not stand outside the political streams and conflicts of the Western world. The call for reform in Paris is just as loud as we hear it in Bonn, in Rome or in Madrid...
Tomorrow in Indianapolis thirty-three cars will take the starter's flag for the fifty-second running of the Memorial Day 500. But it's really only a race for three Lotus turbine STP Oil Treatment Specials owned by Andy Granatelli...