Word: escutcheon
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Ryan further charged that the failure of universities to fight Communism within their ranks was a "serious blot on the escutcheon of democracy," because campuses all over the nation are full of "gullible students and educators...
They don't say the Golden Gophers are not getting good results. They don't have to say that. 50,000-plus people who watched the Ohio State team smear mud on the escutcheon Saturday know that. Anybody who listened to one of the five broadcasts of the game knows that...
Hatless, her curls flying, she motored to the Associated Press office near the Puerta de Alcala. When her black Cadillac convertible (with ducal escutcheon enameled on its door) halted, a taxi pulled up just behind. From it hurried two men in the typical trench coats of the secret police. They blocked Luisa Maria's way. "Duchess," one of them said, "you must come along with us. The chief of police wants to have a talk with you at once...
...muggy afternoon last week, the 15 boys and 25 girls (spelling is a literal-minded business) clustered around microphones in the National Press Club for the finals. After a few rounds of easy ones, the spellers began to trip. Escutcheon, toboggan, chrysalis, mollify, appurtenant, desecrate, diaphanous, discernible, penitentiary . . . (The master of ceremonies tried to soothe the kids who flubbed: "Too bad, Sara, you stayed up there real long.") Troche, scintilla, poliomyelitis, calyx, cirrus, piccalilli, lachrymose, geodesy, insipid . . . ("That's all right, Martin. I always spell 'insipid' with a 'c,' too.") Syllabus, addendum, flaccid, desiccate, accordion...
...like to register a protest. Your fighting cocks story [TIME, March 8] didn't belong in the Sport section. This bloody mark on the escutcheon of our so-called "civilized" society is hardly sport. Judging from the heavy wagering involved, the morbid details might more appropriately have appeared under Business...