Word: emblem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stage seemed set for another Communist show trial. In the dock sat the accused, ready to plead guilty and to confess. On the courtroom wall, over the grey head of the comrade president of the tribunal, hung the Red star emblem with hammer & sickle, and under the flag was the portrait of the all-powerful leader. But the face of the leader seemed to have changed: it was not the slyly benign mask of Joseph Stalin; it was the square, rather brutal face of Josip Broz Tito...
...convertible waiting at the curb. That he had designed too-along with all the Studebakers since the war-and thereby helped set a new fashion in automobiles. Loewy's own car had a few special flamboyant frills: a plastic tailfin, a tiny gold grilled air scoop above the emblem on the hood, recessed door handles, porthole windows and other eyecatchers to start pedestrians' tongues awagging with-the name of Studebaker− and Showman Loewy...
...take medals from foreign governments. "The main thing I want from you," he said, "is your autographed photograph." At dinner he got it, a huge picture inscribed to "mi gran amigo." He also got a Peronista button for his lapel and a small "loyalty medal," an unofficial Peronista emblem which the President had previously given only to members of his household...
...Italians, as to most Europeans, soccer is what baseball is to Americans. No team in Italy was more beloved than Turin's Torinos, whose emblem was a charging bull. Bull-like, the Torinos charged their way to the national championship four times, seldom failed to pay off in the totocalcio, the national soccer pool, where 22 million Italian fans each week place their bets. When the Torinos beat Spain's championship team in Madrid last March, a husky Parma worker cried out: "The Italian Republic's first international victory." The papers picked up the phrase and made...
...Popular Alliance, were plastered on the ancient stone houses. Loudspeakers began to bray through the narrow streets. Shrilled one black-shawled peasant woman: "Why don't they both just jump off a cliff and give us some peace!" The People's Alliance, which had picked for its emblem the country's founder, Saint Marinus (who once bridled and saddled a big brown bear), shouted for its slogan "Vote for Long Beard (San Marino), not for Big Whiskers (Stalin...