Word: flagging
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...French President and a special envoy of the Sultan of Turkey were on the flag-bedecked platform at Paris' Care de I'Est when the Orient Express chugged proudly off on its maiden trip to Constantinople in 1883. On that first trip, the 2,000-odd miles took six days and six hours, what with all the border ceremonies and crowds along the track.* The seats had velvet covers topped by Brussels lace, and lush damask .curtains hung from the windows; the fittings were of solid oak and mahogany; on the outside of every car was a coat...
...question," he has Nixon saying to a reporter on one of the television debates, "Pat and I were discussing that very question the other night--after we had put the kids to bed--after the oath of allegiance--it was a usual sort of evening--Pat was sewing a flag--I was reading the Constitution . . ." He has little patience with the President. "Kennedy and the Democrats aren't attacking Eisenhower this year," he says, "I guess that's been pretty much left to me. . . . Vote NO for President this November. Then the White House will be empty for another four...
...Algerian nationalists rejected DeGaulle's proposal for negotiations under an Algerian flag of truce, Chanderli stated, because they have not lost the war. War, he said, can be stopped only by mutual settlement or by defeat of one party. "The nationalist strength is increasing every day," he emphasized, and Algeria could not be expected to capitulate merely in order to negotiate with the French...
Washington's response was a snort. Said a State Department spokesman: "I am impressed with the ingenuity of the Cubans in arranging a delegation with an American flag flying at its head. They neglected only one thing-to have them rush up a hill yelling 'charge...
...Paul, chairman, and her husband C. Michael Paul to a rival shipping line. For about $8 million, the Pauls sold their 25% control of American Export, which operates a 30-ship fleet, including the liners Independence and Constitution, to the Isbrandtsen Co., which owns and operates 20 American-flag ships and charters some 30 others...