Word: flagging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Moore was dead. But Rogers immediately sent out a radio alarm, giving a description of the black truck, detailed down to the Confederate-flag decal on the front bumper. Less than an hour later, police at a roadblock in Tylertown, Miss., just across the state line, stopped a truck fitting Rogers' description. Arrested was Ernest Ray McElveen, 41, a mill worker and sometime insurance man from Bogalusa, who happened to have two pistols with...
...Anyone who has completed the sixth grade (eighth grade in some states) in a school operated under the U.S. flag will be allowed to vote, even if he cannot read, write, understand or interpret English. This amendment, co-sponsored by Republican Jacob Javits and Democrat Bobby Kennedy, chiefly affects some 330,000 Spanish-speaking Puerto Ricans in New York City and is perhaps the most dubious part of the bill...
...Market. They wanted to discuss "strengthening cooperation" and "coordinating policies" of the two blocs. Explained the man who had convened the Seven, Britain's Harold Wilson: "We are in our citadel, they are in theirs. There is no suggestion we should come out of ours waving a white flag. All we suggest is that we both come out of our citadels and seek to negotiate new arrangements...
Even before the explosion, Peking had continued its increasingly aggressive stance over the "imperialist threat" in Viet Nam. In a Red Flag editorial that scored the U.S. and Russia with equal ferocity, Army Chief of Staff Lo Juiching described Lyndon Johnson as ''more insidious and deadly than Hitler" and stomped with his other foot at the Soviets for their reluctance to engage in full involvement in Southeast Asia. "Whoever wants to satisfy his greed at the expense of others," wrote Lo, "is lifting a rock that will inevitably fall on his own toes...
After the first five furlongs of the 1 3/10-mi. Preakness, Tom Rolfe was nine lengths back. Isador Bieber's Flag Raiser (odds: 5-1) was straining for the lead, with Lucky Debonair and a longshot named Swift Ruler (42-1). Lucky Debonair's jockey, Willie Shoemaker, knew he was in trouble: "I was getting into him pretty good, but he wasn't giving me anything." Rounding the turn for home. Flag Raiser was in front-but there was Tom Rolfe ranging up to take the lead...