Word: emblazoned
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...garrison and its commander were captured. We wiped out 17 battalions. We shot down or damaged 57 planes. There were many enemies lying around on the ground." Peking radio later named both De Castries and Lalande as prisoners of war. Said Cogny, weeping: "Dienbienphu is a new name to emblazon on the streamers of France." Said Navarre, in a special Order of the Day to his remaining 230,000 French Union and 240,000 Vietnamese troops: "After 56 days of continuing combat, submerged by numbers, by odds of 5 to 1, the garrison has had to end its fight...
Crimson rowers comprise the biggest part of an eight-oared shell and all of one four representing the Union Boat Club in the regatta. The colors of the Weld Boat Club, of Eliot House, and of the Newell squad will emblazon the oars of seven other eights. Three singles and a quad (four oarsmen plying eight oars) will also represent the Weld Boat Club. A double (two oarsmen and four oars, without a cox) have been working out of Weld in the past weeks but won't enter the regatta as plans now stand...
...much of his value as an educator. On the other hand a man who is so preoccupied with his own self-instruction that he neglects his teaching responsibilities both in the class room and in tutorial conferences, is of no value to the undergraduate whatsoever. He serves only to emblazon the name of the University in scholarly publications, and to swell the volume of library books bearing the insignia of the University Press...