Word: emblems
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Inside the gate at Camp Pickett, deep in the dusty Virginia pine barrens, a soldier stood methodically thrusting copies of a neat, mimeographed pamphlet into the hands of arriving draftees. The cover bore the grape-leaf emblem of the 43rd ("Winged Victory") Division, and the first page carried a message from its commander: "You have just joined the best outfit in the Army ... I expect to see you doing your jobs as soldiers in the best division in the best Army in the world. (Signed) Kenneth F. Cramer, Major General, Commanding...
...right now the wise student should wait, if at all possible, before signing any blank with a service emblem on the top. The wise poker player holds his bet until the dealer has finished shuffling the cards...
...first time it is possible to discuss the affair without particular reference to the Harvard Band. This is not to say that the Band was not excellent, for Malcolm Holmes and his musicians turned in their usual top-notch job. From "Carousel" to the "National Emblem" march, the Band showed the versatility, poise, and ability which people have praised for many years. The band was as good as everyone thought it would be, which is about all you can say about the band...
Once they asked the ambassador to kowtow before the figure of a dragon; the imperial emblem. This struck the Occidentals as an Oriental trick that would somehow signify their subservience. Amherst offered to do so if a mandarin of equal rank would genuflect before a portrait of the British sovereign. "Inadmissible!" snapped the Chinese. Amherst played the idea a bit further. He would kowtow to the Emperor if it were guaranteed that any Chinese ambassador in London would make similar obeisance to the English throne. "Impossible!" snorted the mandarins...
...meeting similar demands. As to girls' house scene, critics everywhere have stressed the delicate way same is conducted ... As to [the boy's] wall scene, once more its spirit and execution have been judged everywhere simply candid. May I recall that noble religious town of Brussels, Belgium, emblem is boy in said circumstances whose statue stands in one of its squares." Taking up the argument, Burstyn charged "a subtle form of sabotage." He pointed out that the cuts demanded by Breen would entail gouging hundreds of more feet out of the picture to have its continuity make sense...