Word: flagging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...armed services, and there was dark talk of a sweeping decree banning the Indonesian Communist Party (P.K.I.). Under army pressure, Parliament suspended all its 57 Communist members. And as Yao yelped, 100,000 Moslem students attacked the Red Chinese consulate in Medan on Sumatra, tore down its flag, and howled "Chinese Go Home" for an hour...
Acting on a tip, Leoni's secret police had closed in the night before, found bunks, medical supplies and a Russian flag in the building. A heavy, hydraulically operated concrete door led to a cavern in the hillside behind the house. There, in a vault-shaped room, was an impressive arsenal of weapons: a 20-mm. cannon, a 3.5-in. bazooka, stacks of rifles, pistols, homemade mortar tubes and hundreds of shells, grenades and shaped demolition charges. With lathes, presses and other tools-and a gasoline generator to power them-terrorists had been turning out enough arms to supply...
...cooed the great-great-great-granddaughter of George Calvert, the first Lord Baltimore, "it's so romantic, this history and genealogy business. I'm so happy the flag is going back to America." Mrs. Barbara Soames was also delighted at what the flag was leaving behind for her: the $15,120 paid for the rare bunting, a modified Old Glory made about 1795, with 15 six-pointed stars and 15 stripes to represent the original colonies and newly admitted Vermont and Kentucky. The faded flag had been among the English Calverts for generations. Last week, with a fine...
...Hill, a constant flow of bills shuttled between the Capitol's wings, to be acted on within hours by both House and Senate. Energetically sweeping out the legislative leftovers, the two houses sped through dozens of bypassed bills on matters ranging from authorization to fly the U.S. flag 24 hours a day in Lexington, Mass., to approving medals for the 250th anniversary of San Antonio...
...George III recognized the freedom of his former colonies, Copley invited Watson to his studio. "There," recalled Watson, "with a bold hand, a master's touch, and I believe an American heart, he attached to the ship the stars and stripes. This was, I imagine, the first American flag hoisted in old England...