Word: insigniaed
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...afternoon last week three freshmen in sweat suits paused to watch a pair of crack runners on the track at Soldiers Field, studying the form of the big man in the NYAC garb and his slightly smaller companion wearing H.A.A. insignia...
...Readers canceled subscriptions to newspapers and magazines which carried recruiting appeals. At dances, girls refused to dance with soldiers; it was demeaning, one girl explained. Every day, there were new incidents in which civilians had assaulted and roughed up some hapless recruit. Soldiers were jeered in the streets, had insignia ripped off their uniforms. In a Hamburg restaurant, a brawl started when civilian customers yelled at three soldiers: "Why don't you get a decent job and stop living on our taxes?" One German unit reported that seven out of every ten of its men had been either insulted...
...Bolivia today will receive this week the gold medallion and green-red-yellow sash of the presidency. Hernan Siles Zuazo, 42, is following in his father's steps: 30 years ago, Hernando Siles stood in the same spot in the Chamber of Deputies to receive the presidential insignia...
...quit in disgust because the blueprints seemed so crazy. "Why build a cellar big enough to drive through with a dump truck?" he asked, and was told to mind his own business. Others recalled seeing friends whom they knew to be engineers suddenly appearing at the station wearing the insignia of the U.S. Army Signal Corps. Why? An amused shrug was the only answer questioners ever got-but last week the Russians thought they had found a better...
...trouble. Railroad enthusiasts are much the most genial when they grow older, at the time, as one writer describes them, "they shake down into fine people, jolly and philosophical." Youthful enthusiasts sometimes "ride their hobby too hard, and show off their knowledge of engine parts and other expert insignia with which they hide the hot confusion that is within them...