Word: insigniaed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Tito maintains a standing army of approximately 800,000 men, trained and supervised by Red Army officers, armed with Red Army guns and decorated with Red Army insignia. So deeply ingrained are its conspiratorial habits that it still hides large stores of weapons in the hills against possible counter-revolutionary surprises...
...inch red trouser stripes, gleaming ebony boots, visored cap with gold braid and a red star, immaculate white doeskin gloves). But sometimes his public relations men ask him to pose in civilian clothes to seem closer to the masses. After long indecision, Tito finally chose his marshal's insignia (made of felt): a star wreathed in gold laurel. It was designed by a Belgrade tailor who made himself a pair of scarce bedroom slippers from the rejected samples...
...last resort for settling your wagers on every conceivable subject. We are even asked to lighten the load of parents beset with the one-track vagaries of small boydom. Wrote one of them to us recently, in some desperation: "I have a ten-year-old son who (collects) military insignia. . . . For the past six months our name has been a byword in Downers Grove (Ill.). People start suddenly and streak for home when they see any of us approaching. No one is safe from our friendly, but firm, tug on the sleeve and an insinuating voice saying, 'That...
Tall and grey, his face gaunt, his SS uniform rumpled and shorn of insignia, the condemned man last week faced his judges in the grim yard of Prague's Pankrac Prison. Ranged before him were the judge and jury who had tried him two days before. The yard was filled with spectators-some 3,000 hard-eyed Czechs. Prominent among them sat seven widows from a village once known as Lidice...
...stole serving as an Archbishop's official insignia...