Old Glory
Britishnoun
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“I really couldn’t figure out what was going on,” he added, until he looked up to the mountain and “there was Old Glory flying.”
From Washington Post
“My head was buried in the sand. Then I looked up and saw Old Glory on top of Mount Suribachi.”
From New York Times
But for several reasons — because the so-called busing crisis was so recent, because “The Soiling of Old Glory” was disseminated so widely — Boston became the symbol of the white backlash against civil rights.
From Los Angeles Times
The student was initially inspired to get the flag after he saw "Old Glory" flying in the gym ahead of a basketball game versus another school.
From Fox News
That’s true whether we view the assassins purely as historical figures or also as metaphors for an aggressive strain of lethal discontent as American as Old Glory.
From New York Times
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