Tens of thousands of flag-waving activists called for early elections.
Long after South Africans saw their own team eliminated from the tournament, they kept up their vuvuzela-blowing, flag-waving, patriotic exuberance across the racial divide.
Yet in The Last Lingua Franca, Nicholas Ostler serves up a bold corrective to Anglo-centrism and its familiar flag-waving myopia。
The visitor is greeted by a wall of four photographs: a crowd of flag-waving, bespectacled Nixon-supporters in Texas in 1960 (the illustration above shows a couple of more sedate fans in Indiana);
a seething flag-waving crowd filled the streets; a seething mass of maggots; lovers and madmen have such seething brains- Shakespeare.
The emperor greeted the flag-waving wellwishers, appearing three times on the glass-shielded balcony with the empress.
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