Word: bic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cypress. There are fewer than 1,000 players seated at the long card tables lined up diagonally across the concrete floor. A plump Indian woman in native dress moves up and down the aisles selling bingo cards. The players have set up their cartons of cigarettes alongside their Bic lighters, their coffee thermoses, their good-luck coffee mugs, their plastic cups of French fries, and their little signs that indicate what bus group they are with. They are mostly silent, hunched over their sheets of cards. Occasionally a cheer will go up and cowbells will ring when someone yells "Bingo...
...black boot came through the door, then another, followed by the unmistakable odor of grease and grenadine. The black tweed jacket, the streak of slick-backed hair, the 10-pack of black, Bic ball-point pens. "Who is this...
...Rockin' roll writing, sir," Johnny said again, climbing onto a desk and singing into an unsheathed Bic ball point: "You should of heard them modernist poets writin' rock/ Everybody let's rock/ Viva Cambridge, people...
...Bic, the market leader in disposable lighters, claims to have sold 2 billion of the 79 cents throwaway items since 1973. According to the litigants, the lighter is an unstable fire bomb that can self-ignite in housecoat pockets and purses and on car dashboards. Bic accidents have allegedly claimed the life of at least one victim, Ethel Smith of Tower City, Pa., whose husband is suing for $11 million. Other suits against the company * could easily mount into additional millions of dollars. In one of the first Bic cases tried in open court, Philadelphia Artist Cynthia Littlejohn last November...
Officials of Bic, which has its U.S. headquarters in Milford, Conn., note that product packages warn customers to make sure the lighter flame is doused after use. But the warnings do not appear on the lighters themselves. For his part, President Bruno Bich says that "Bic manufactures the best lighter on the market...