1.   Crank up the merengue, dust off the Dominican flags, and smile until someone gives you a reason to stop.

2.   For Nancy Corrigan, the wife of a firefighter and a mother who is raising her children in Belle Harbor, the Dominican flag spoke the first necessary words.

3.   Gone were many of their parents and most of the Dominican flags.

4.   He saw all the Dominican flags that were unfurled in his honor every time he strode off the mound toward the Sox dugout.

5.   Pedro Martinez cavorted around the yard wearing a do-rag in the colors of the Dominican flag, his baseball cap nowhere in sight.

6.   Some waved Dominican flags.

7.   They poured into Fenway toting K-cards and Dominican flags.

8.   Twenty feet away, Peter Vallone, his white guayabera shirt taking on wrinkles, tapped a rolled-up Dominican flag against his leg impatiently.

9.   Witt was sitting in a van under the Dominican flag at the corner of Waveland and Kenmore avenues when fortune came his way.

10.   Several people waved Dominican flags.