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For any serviceman, the proudest insigne is the unit crest with a red background designating a battle unit.
From Time Magazine Archive
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First to sport the new five-star insigne, on the flag of his flagship* last fortnight, was Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King.
From Time Magazine Archive
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For her pains, she was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor and the insigne of a Distinguished Worker of Sanitary Defense of the U.S.S.R.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He kept two Spad pursuit ships, each bearing the number 1, and the famed hat-in-the-ring insigne.
From Time Magazine Archive
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“Anybody wearing the fraternity pin,” he added, and touched a blue dot tattooed under his left eye— an insigne, a visible password, by which certain former prison inmates could identify him.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
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