Word: insigniaed
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...small Vatican flag has two equal vertical stripes, yellow and white, carries the papal insignia. Until 1860 the Vatican had a small armed navy, used chiefly against pirates...
Things are pretty quiet around the White House until Johnny comes march ing home. He quickly changes into his khaki uniform, Sam Browne belt and over seas cap, which are as near to G.I. as regulations allow. (He broods over the fact that he cannot wear regulation buttons, insignia and decorations.) Sometimes he gets in an awkwardly uneven game of ping-pong with his mother, or a swim, but usually he breaks out of doors to climb trees and get all dirty. When this palls he remembers his ambition, and strides down to the guard house to help the soldiers...
...radio's news, scans the Times, attends to cables and correspondence. By 10 o'clock he is ready for visitors in his big bay-windowed reception room. By n he has changed his slippers, buttoned up his red-tabbed bush jacket with the Field Marshal's insignia, and is off in his Daimler for another meeting of the Dominion Prime Ministers...
...Hawk-for the air force-are closely modeled on it. Red Star's battle reports are the Soviet Union's most reliable and most colorful. Since all Russians get military training, all correspondents have military rank. Most of Red Star's are majors, who wear no insignia to distinguish them as newsmen. Red Star's star correspondent is greying Ilya Ehrenburg, 53, whose dispatches are frequently cabled to the U.S. Pravda and Izvestia also run his highly colored, hate-filled dispatches...
Skinny Wainwright's northern Luzon troops grudgingly began to back up. Ford, Chevrolet and G.M.C. trucks with the insignia of Japan rolled over the roads with General Homma's little men. Jap artillery hurled shells made of U.S. scrap. Jap planes, sent back after Singapore to finish the job, dropped fragmentation bombs made of the same stuff. Back of Wainwright's lines, base hospitals overflowed in gangrened misery...