Word: emblemmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...those who are attacked continue to contribute. Why? Is a lust for pain? Yes, in some case Heroics? Perhaps. The writer stand for something. He becomes an emblem of the great trial, and everyone sympathizes with him, nay, sings his praises without reading his work...
...have recently been surprised in noticing that no-where on the Harvard campus is the national emblem, our flag, displayed daily. It is true that, on days such as when the university receives the Russian ambassador to the UN, University Hall hangs out the American as well as the Soviet and Harvard flags. But where are the stars and stripes when we do not have any such special occasion? I would like to know why Harvard does not hoist the flag every day and proudly too. None of the houses, none of the buildings in the Yard...
Some of the biggest U.S. dailies still carry mastheads whose fusty design and pompous preachments seem unchanged since reporters wore celluloid collars. The Baltimore Sun's front page has advocated LIGHT FOR ALL since 1840, 41 years before the city was electrified. Along with the Hearst emblem, an eagle roosting on a starred shield, the San Francisco Examiner clings loyally to the pet name-THE MONARCH OF THE DAILIES-bestowed on it by the Chief 74 years...
...landing a Soviet astronaut on the moon: "It is not a question of mooning him but of demooning him. Our national emblem is already on the moon, but we don't want to place a coffin beside...
...medal was too much. Rio's O Globo complained that "hung on the chest of a false Cuban and authentic Communist, the emblem of Christ's Cross has been completely devalued." Sharper still was the blast from sulphur-tongued Carlos Lacerda, governor of Guanabara state (which includes Rio de Janeiro), whose original election-campaign support for Quadros has since changed to dismay at Quadros' flirtation with Communists ("future hangmen of their fathers, spies of their brothers...