Word: emblem
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...found it. By the late 1960s, peace symbols were appearing on coffee mugs, miniskirts and ponchos and were dangling from chains around the necks of guys you would expect to see at the Playboy mansion. Duplicated endlessly as a hip fashion accessory, it threatened to devolve into a meaningless emblem of benign and groovy sentiment. It started looking corny, a kind of smiley face before there were smiley faces...
Like the rise and fall of women's hemlines, the presence and shape of hair on men's faces has often been a barometer of the national mood. Though hipsters began sporting goatees in the 1950s, the more widespread return of the beard in the '60s became an emblem of the defiant counterculture's refusal to go along with the status quo. The cause of the current revival is more difficult to pin down. For some, it's simply a matter of wanting to be in vogue. In the past year, male models have been strutting their scruff on runways...
...common loon, a black and white water bird with a tapered bill and a haunting call, became a symbol of Canada's money in 1987: the year Canada minted its first one-dollar coins with the now-iconic bird on one face. It is a fitting national emblem. The loon is found across much of the country, and moves impressively both in air and under water. Its aquatic skills in particular are so good that outside North America, the bird is known as the great northern diver...
...loyal to Mao Zedong ransacked his parents' home. The thugs took jewelry, books and anything else associated with a bourgeois lifestyle. But they left a few photo magazines. In one, Qiu saw a picture of a woman wearing a red qipao, the form-hugging Chinese dress that became an emblem of capitalist decadence during the Cultural Revolution...
...where Hallion proved her mettle nearly 20 years after Delaney-Smith’s departure. The coach led Westwood to a state title, six undefeated regular seasons, and the record for most consecutive wins (96) before taking the head coaching job at Harvard in 1982. Delaney-Smith was an emblem of progress in girls’ athletics at the high school level, demanding changes like better gym times and uniforms for female athletes at Westwood and beyond. “I didn’t know Kathy until she began to recruit me here,” Hallion says...