Word: emblem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General Chennault gave Scott a P-40-"the single fighter plane that was to work out of Assam." Scott had its nose painted with the shark's head emblem: "I don't know how long I walked around the fighter admiring it and caressing its wicked-looking body . . . as if I were rolling old sherry around on my tongue. . . . Like a beautiful woman, it demanded constant attention." At last, with his plane's shark mouth "seeming to drip saliva," he went out for action...
...Saint George's Day, and the emblem of the First Army is the cross of Saint George...
Ambassador Hayes's revelation that we are provisioning Spain, on top of I'affaire Darlan, prompts me to suggest that we adopt as our emblem the Chamberlain umbrella...
Well camouflaged, lazy-looking spots became busy, alert shacks, anti-aircraft pits, airplanes. On the flanks of planes could be seen the pilots' emblem-a droopy-tailed dragon with the motto: "Our Assam Draggin...
...hostile" demonstration of students was to be held before the U.S. Embassy. "No extra guards were provided, however, and even the two usually stationed in front of the Embassy were absent when the gang came up. . . ." They booed the U.S., threw stones at the Ambassador and at the U.S. emblem over the Embassy doorway. At a dinner that night, Weddell agreed with other Americans in Madrid that he had no choice but to demand an apology and to ask for his recall if it was not forthcoming. When Weddell was able to see Franco a week later, his instructions from...