Word: lapelled
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Nothing was too good for those wonderful guys. The mere uniform made a man a hero: He could hardly pay for his own drinks. Congress stuffed his pockets with benefits. He joined the proud brotherhood of the "ruptured duck," the eagle that everyone wore in his lapel to prove he'd been in it, had done his part. The awful memories of combat and carnage were bathed away in the great national wash of relief and welcome. Hardly any Americans thought much then, or even afterward, about Dresden blasted, Hamburg gone, Hiroshima and Nagasaki reduced to radioactive powder...
...value lies in the monetary symbol of its diverse logos. The sole charm of a Lacoste shirt is the Lacoste. The Handbook confirms this: "Subtleties of cut, weave, or color distinguish the merely good from the Prep. A small percentage of polyester in oxford cloth shirt of a lapel that's a quarter of an inch too wide can make all the difference." Only that idle elite can afford to spend time learning to detect such trivial differences and can squander money paying for them. What a pity that the rest of us are not the beneficiaries of a higher...
...comparable campaign is taking place in Newbury, 53 miles west of London, where 96 U.S. cruise missiles are to be based in 1983. Labor Left-Winger Joan Ruddock has organized an antimissile drive-complete with lapel buttons, canvassing and a rock concert. Such efforts are hardly marginal: a recent poll showed that 56% of Britain's population opposes the deployment of the U.S. missiles. Says Ruddock: "The whole idea of theater nuclear weapons means that we will be annihilated to save the United States and the eastern part of the U.S.S.R...
Leningrad is a city dominated by its namesake. The sign which appears on buildings that "Lenin is more alive than the living" is not an exaggeration. Lenin is very much the Soviet national icon. One can buy literally hundreds of different lapel pins or "znatchki" with Lenin's profile. Buildings, theaters, factories, ships, trains and squares are named after him. His name is invoked to justify all political actions and his ideas and actions are acknowledged for all positive achievements of the Soviet State. Even people who dream of emigrating consider him to have been a great man. They often...
Girls-and some boys-have taken to wearing lapel buttons inscribed NO. This flat statement may make for flat evenings, but the Catholic Archdiocese of Denver and a group for unwed mothers, which are distributing the buttons to students, report that the nay signs are catching...