Word: emblemmed
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...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...
...convention props. Among them: a portrait of Argentina's Liberator José de San Martin, a crucifix, a vellum-bound copy of the Gospels, and most important, a chair of native pipiribi wood with President Perón's portrait, the Argentine shield, and the Peronista party emblem painted on its back...
...Rostrum. No one knew how the signals got switched, but Evita abruptly called off her speech to the opening session. When the pipiribi chair was placed on the rostrum, the Peronista party emblem had been hastily covered with a piece of ordinary leather. Obviously somebody had decided that a party emblem was not a proper ornament for a convention representing the entire Argentine people...