The two linesmen do pretty much everything else — they drop the puck for face-offs, make offside calls, and flag hand passes and pucks batted with high sticks — except worry about being hurt.
We pledged allegiance to the flag, hand over our heart; we were required to learn the words to the national anthem and to sing it with conviction.
In what some in the opposition view as the latest setback for the uprising against Assad, deals have been struck with civilian committees or activists to raise the government flag, hand over weapons or expel rebel fighters in exchange for essential supplies and an end to the government attacks.
On the wind-down lap after his victory, Alonso slowed to take the Spanish flag handed to him by a track marshal so he could wave it as he returned to the victory podium.
— The Tea Party Scottsdale meeting began with a prayer intoned by the group's secretary, Sunny Forrest-Brown, to about 30 people gathered before an American flag — hands clasped, heads bowed.
"In Europe, they say, 'Yeah, we need our own room.' " After her upset win, Scarlett draped herself in a Canadian flag handed to her from the crowd, but she lost in the semifinals, in a match interrupted by a software malfunction, pro gaming's version of a rain delay.
As he slid on his knees towards the corner flag, hands cupped behind his ears, Steven Gerrard's gleeful celebration of his free-kick against Everton could have been aimed at any number of critics.
It's unclear whether EXO-Planet will match the success of previous SGN iPhone games, like Skies of Glory, iBowl, SGN Golf and F.A.S.T., but it presents the coolest version of Capture The Flag hands down.
ATLANTA — The Atlanta Falcons' clarion call — "Rise Up!" — was emblazoned on flags handed to fans not wearing cheeseheads and bellowed by the actor Samuel L. Jackson on stadium video screens.
(Representatives from the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services encouraged attendees to wave their miniature flags, handed out before the ceremony, to the sound of the music. In their first act of civil disobedience, most kept the flags at their sides).
The oversize window of Kaas & Company, which also goes by the name A Taste of Holland, is lined with Dutch and American flags, hand-painted wooden shoes and blue-and-white Delft ceramics, from tiles and teapots to windmills and beer mugs.
