salute

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“The modern view,” Mr. Sidebottom writes, “is to doubt its historical accuracy. It is a scholarly orthodoxy that the salute was no more than a one-off impromptu acclamation that went very wrong.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

Nigel Farage had defended Edwards over the salute photograph, claiming that he had been impersonating Basil Fawlty.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

Belarusian state media showed Kim and Lukashenko hugging at a lavish welcome programme on Wednesday involving an artillery salute and goose-stepping soldiers before a large flag-waving crowd at Kim Il Sung Square.

From Barron's • Mar. 25, 2026

Anything would be better than trotting out another bog standard pro sports salute to the troops that year.

From Salon • Mar. 18, 2026

The cop snapped his pad closed, and each officer gave Carla and her mother a salute of farewell.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez