Word: flagging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Butler was a tough administrator, and his "sins" multiplied in Southern eyes: he hanged a man named William Mumford who had torn the Union flag from atop the U.S. Mint (though Southern and Copperhead critics conveniently forgot that Butler also hanged Union soldiers caught looting in New Orleans); he confiscated property and gold that the rebels had hidden (but passed it all along to Washington...
Army General Manuel Odria, then in power, scoffed at the upstart architect and declared Belaúnde's candidacy illegal for lack of enough petition signatures. Belaúnde called a protest demonstration in downtown Lima, raised high a Peruvian flag, and shouting "Adelante!", led a mob of 1,000 toward the President's palace. Waiting police hurled tear gas. His eyes streaming, Belaúnde delivered an ultimatum: "I will wait half an hour. If by then I have not been inscribed, we will march." Odria grudgingly let him run. In the voting, Belaúnde lost...
...Thursday, by Sam Shepard, is an Ionescute little shadow play replete with vapid teen-age antics. An impudently hilarious finale features a boy and girl twitching with copulative ardor under an American flag to the swinging beat of a Beatles' record. To dodge the charge of desecration, the play uses an out-of-date flag. No penalty exists for desecrating drama...
Alternately swigging champagne and beer, Shelby watched Texas' Lloyd Ruby sweep past the checkered flag in his blue-and-white Ford GT. A Cobra finished second, a Ford GT was third, and another Cobra was fourth. The winning GT's average speed for 1,243 miles was a record-smashing 99.9 m.p.h. At long last Ford had beaten Ferrari, and a U.S. automaker had scored its biggest victory since Jimmy Murphy won the 1921 French Grand Prix in a Duesenberg...
...says Dawn, "souvenir-ing" is the most popular Olympic pastime. After those same 1958 Empire Games, there was a reception at which Australian lady athletes "hitched up their skirts and tucked silver pepper and salt shakers and crystal wineglasses into the tops of their stockings or inside their girdles." Flags are particularly coveted: at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, Dawn herself stole a five-ring Olympic banner from the Imperial Palace Grounds, was tackled by pursuing cops as she tried to dive into the palace moat. When police found out who she was, they made her a present of the flag...