Word: insigniaed
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...started out representing a Japanese running shoe called Tiger but realized he could create and hawk his own American shoe. Nike was named for the winged Greek goddess of victory and given the now familiar "Swoosh" logo (at the time, someone said it resembled an upside-down Puma insignia). At first Nike made shoes for serious runners, but as millions of Americans began to run seriously, it became a shoe not just for wiry steeplechasers but also for ladies wheeling shopping carts...
...area was peaceful, the weather clear, and the two white helicopters flying toward Zagreb prominently displayed the insignia of the European Community's monitoring mission. Nevertheless, a Yugoslav army MiG-21 fighter fired four air-to-air missiles, scoring a direct hit on one chopper, killing all five observers -- four Italian and one French -- on board...
...August, a store that sells insignia items, sales have slowed considerably compared to last year, said John C. Ballestas, the store's assistant manager...
When he was a year old, Fred Tate could read the insignia on the back of a dish. At seven he is a displaced person, a brilliant adult mind imprisoned in second grade. In class he flummoxes his teacher with complex answers to simple questions. (Q. Which of the numbers one through nine can be divided by two? A. All of them.) On the schoolyard asphalt he draws elaborate Madonnas in colored chalk. But he can't catch a basketball without falling down, or fail to be oppressed by his genius. Seems Fred is a kid too, envying...
...Harvard name offers plenty of benefits. But think for a minute before you cover yourself in Harvard insignia. Think before you get too caught up in the prestige of going to one of the most elite institutions in the world...