Word: escutcheon
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...nude was small, full and rounded: a compact little machine à plaisir, borne up like a plump rose on tumultuous puffs of cloud or sprawled, replete with the matter-of-fact enjoyment of her own narcissism, on a tangled day bed. Indeed Louis XV's true escutcheon was the round, dimpled bottom of Boucher's favorite model, an inhabitant of the Deer Park (as the villa where the royal mistresses lived was called) known as la petite Morfil. Miss Murphy was an Irish girl whom the Pompadour pro cured for her flagging monarch by the utterly rococo device...
Such soft truths can scarcely tarnish Bobby's hand-tooled escutcheon (a razorback rampant on a field of Pampers). In search of a new role, he discovered that statements like "a woman's place is in the bedroom and the kitchen, in that order" got him publicity, so he kept repeating them. Then he aimed the chauvinist pitch at women's tennis. Billie Jean King and a few other leading players had been attracting attention with their demands for better treatment and larger purses for women. King, in particular, became something of a heroine of the women...
Trying to stop the speculation about who will replace Spiro Agnew on the Republican ticket, President Nixon hinted that maybe nobody would. It was high time to give the Vice President his due, Nixon told his aides, who promptly got busy polishing up the Agnew escutcheon. The Vice President has been handed more visible duties, like defending the Administration's economic policies at this month's meeting of Governors in Puerto Rico. His picture adorned the cover of Monday, the publication of the Republican National Committee. He is slotted for a key role at the four regional conferences...
...identical, that our traditions are similar, and our sympathies common. Any feeling of hauteur or superiority with which Harvard undergraduates may have regarded Yale at the founding of that institution has certainly perished in the lapse of time. Any such feeling should certainly now vanish before Yale's fair escutcheon, blazoned, as they justly remark, with the noble achievements of one hundred and seventy years...
That instant of military glory unalloyed was the last in the nation's memory. The horror of Hiroshima and Nagasaki accompanied the defeat of Japan. Korea turned into an unpopular, slogging stale mate. Viet Nam has divided the nation and stained the military's proud escutcheon...