Word: branded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been attracting attention with their demands for better treatment and larger purses for women. King, in particular, became something of a heroine of the women's movement, although, like Mrs. Riggs, she is no ideologue. So Bobby teased King: "You insist that top women players provide a brand of tennis comparable to men's. I challenge you to prove it. I contend that you not only cannot beat a top male player, but that you can't beat me, a tired old man." Billie Jean refused the gauntlet the first time around because, she says, "we didn...
...years ago, when she billed herself as "the divine Miss M" and began doing such an act at Manhattan's Continental Baths, a gaily liberated Turkish bath that imports outside entertainment on weekends. But since then, Midler has left the Continental Baths far behind, and her brand of "trash with flash," as she identifies it, has made her a rising pop star of national scope...
Motorola is not the only American manufacturer trying to switch TV trade channels between the U.S. and the Far East. While Taiwan factories make more than half of all the black-and-white TV sets sold in the U.S., many under Japanese brand names, RCA Corp. earlier this year signed up the Lai Fu Trading Co. to sell RCA color sets in Taiwan...
...piece of wood jabbed my finger where the B-flat had been a second before. A week later at the University of Maryland, a bass A-flat flew off as I was finishing a Chopin sonata - they glued it back with hot epoxy during the break." Both instruments were brand new, one a Steinway, the other a Baldwin - the two makes whose pianos are used at 99% of all U.S. concerts...
...shitting razor blades," and who inspired with the regularity of a Swiss watch bombastic letters from the Association of Black Athletes charging the football staff with racism. Glodston who resented being considered a "black" first and a coach second, who wanted to get into serious football, who tasted the brand and atmosphere of Cambridge and pulled up roots for the greener and more expansive fields of Colorado where men are men and no pseudo-psychological bullshit is required or even considered, let alone practiced, where you tell a player to eat dirt or nails or manure, and he does...