Word: emblemized
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...since Margaret and Peter Townsend had each returned to England, the titillating "will-she-or-won't-she" speculation of the keyhole-peepers had become only a tinkling obbligato behind the sterner voices. Whatever else the royal family may be in modern Britain-symbol of ancient legitimacy, shining emblem of Commonwealth unity, indestructible warranty of the glory that is Britain-it is first and foremost a family affair: every spinster is its maiden aunt, every shopgirl its happily envious kid sister, every vicar its parish priest, and every family man its authoritative uncle. In moments of relative calm...
Died. Walter Riehl, 73, Austrian founder of the German National Socialist Workers' Party, which was first (1918) to use the swastika as a party emblem, was one of the splinter groups later welded by Hitler into the Nazi movement; of a heart attack; in Vienna...
Hangar & Ramp. Last week the Air Force Academy was doing its best to rustle up some traditions of its own. The heraldic division of the U.S. Air Force was working on an emblem, and the academy's Athletic Association had temporarily adopted the eagle as a mascot. So far, no one had thought up a cheer, no one had composed a song. But some progress had been made with the lingo...
...Little Big Horn country, and the courier's note that brought his last despairing cry for rein forcements. "Oh, look at this," cried the President, espying "Little Phil" Sheridan's gold-plated Winchester. Then, through an open doorway, the President spotted the flaming-sword emblem of his Supreme Headquarters in Europe, and he blurted: "Oh, by gosh, there's my old flag. I'd forgotten I sent that up here." Afterward, the President noted to a couple of cadets that the day was June 6, "a big day in my life. This is Dday...
...character. If a man is sure of himself and the integrity of the processes he has used to reach his decision, he can be strong, but he can be mild." "You'll Do, All Right." On his last day at the Point, standing before a giant West Point emblem and its motto, DUTY, HONOR, COUNTRY, the President delivered the commencement address to the 469 graduates of the class of '55. It was only the second time in the academy's 153 years that a cadet had returned as President to speak to a graduating class...