Word: emblemmed
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...NASCAR nation, Dale Earnhardt has been front-page news every Sunday of every race season, and some Sundays in between. For the rest of Americans, he was a name they knew, the emblem of a sport they'd seen here and there but probably didn't know too much about...
...world architecture. Most of the mural-size "wall drawings" on display are fairly inert; their main characteristic is a sort of soothing, high-minded laboriousness that stands in for energy of conception. Still, their depiction of colored solids often has the decorative charm of the geometrical illustrations in old emblem books, and the color, saturated and speckled, is a big step up from the normally posterish hues, alternating between bland and blatant, of LeWitt's earlier work...
...there on the map, of course - a territorial behemoth the size of Western Europe, stretching from Sudan in Africa's northeast to Angola and Zambia in its southwest. It has a flag (although its bland blue banner spangled with an assortment of gold stars looks more like the neutral emblem of some forgotten international organization). And an anthem, too. Its government issues passports and postage stamps and national budgets, and maintains a standing army. But for most of its people, the government in Kinshasa has been an authority as distant as any colonial power. As a state in the modern...
Both the Geneva-based International Committee of the Red Cross and the Red Cross Federation, which represents more than two dozen Red Cross and Red Crescent societies around the world, want to adopt a new emblem with no recognizable religious or political connotations. Suggestions for a replacement include a pair of red chevrons, a red diamond or another symbol that resembles a pair of red brackets...
...prevent theft, each laptop is painted crimson and is emblazoned with the Harvard University emblem. The laptops are also fitted with a device that will activate the building alarm if anyone attempts to remove them from the library...