Word: mottoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After three months' apprenticeship, novice munitions workers become full-fledged members of the Guy Fawkes Club, eligible to wear the club badge: a gilt portcullis on a field of blue, above a crossed hammer and spanner bearing the motto: "With Which We Work" over the red rose of England...
What Is Character? Yet classroom proficiency comes second at West Point. First is the intangible called character. If you ask West Point graduates to define it, they will usually mention the Academy's motto: Duty, Honor, Country. Pressed further, they may describe it as the pilot light that touches off the spirit of a citizen army, or the force that inspires in that army at war an overwhelming sense of obligation...
...there you come to a house that has been completely smashed and whose timbers are still smoldering. If resistance comes from a house, there is no dickering: a tank crew blows it apart, and rolls calmly on. After a few such examples the word seems to get around. The motto of the armormen is: if they want war they can have...
...Colonel Kingoro Hashimoto, bullyboy and cloak-&-dagger man, who in 1936 took part in the bloody coup against the Government. In 1937 he ordered the bombing of the U.S.S. Panay. His motto: "Watch me, Hashimoto. I am no man to sit and talk...
...could look down upon flower gardens and a spider's web of clotheslines forever hung with grey underwear. His father, who then had charge of the hardware section of Bohan's department store, was a Republican with firm convictions about religion: "Live and let live is my motto. A man can be a better Christian than most and not go near a church...