Word: emblazoning
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...admits that the restraints often chafe. "My hands are absolutely tied. This is not my company anymore." The board has scotched some of Turner's ideas (like a proposal to buy the Financial News Network, and another to lease part of New York City's Pan Am Building and emblazon it with the CNN logo). But it approved one of his boldest moves: the October 1988 launch...
ADOPTING THE SLOGAN of Tyler's opposition, "Zimmerman flew and Tyler knew," Jimmy proceeds to emblazon it everywhere from the big screen at Shea Stadium to the provebial horse's behind. Each of these public service messages is signed "Turk 1821." Lynch's nom de plume inspired by his brother's nickname and badge number. Clever Jim manages to deface countless subway cars, buses, public monuments, and even Mayor Tyler's own limosine before getting caught...
...worldly philosopher's dream: his long neglected works catch fire, illuminate his times and emblazon his name for posterity. It does not often come true, but it did for Herbert Marcuse. In the tumultuous 1960s his arcane and obscurely written books were suddenly discovered by student radicals in both America and Western Europe, and the white-maned, craggy-faced, cigar-puffing septuagenarian found himself a culture hero of the youth rebellion. A protesting student in Rome spoke for innumerable other rebels when he placed Marcuse in a holy trinity of revolutionaries: "We see Marx as the prophet, Marcuse...
...pacified student demonstrators by affixing daffodils to their nightsticks. On Atlanta's Peachtree Street, where police and hippies once tangled, young officers have persuaded young civilians to help combat the use of hard drugs. When the department recently opened a store-front precinct station, officers gamely let two hippies emblazon the plate-glass window with the legend...
...Tread on Me" serpent of the American Revolution to the three-headed elephant of Laos. This year 18 new flags were unfurled by the emergent nations of Africa and the Mediterranean. Cyprus boasts the first national flag bearing a map. Mali is the first to emblazon its colors with a human ideogram, employing an ancient African symbol of a man with arms raised to heaven and feet planted firmly on earth, signifying attachment to religion and the soil...