Word: emblemized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shrugged Hoskins, who has flown 240 combat forays in Southeast Asia: "It was just another mission to me." Standing under an emblem ("Valor in Combat") emblazoned on the fuselage of his aircraft, Ratley agreed: "It was kind of uneventful, just like a regular sortie, like the 100 or so I've flown over here." Then Ratley added: "I guess I should be a little more excited, but I don't feel very enthusiastic. We've been involved so long, it almost seems like an institution...
...food. Kate has a recurring Jungian dream about a long, cold struggle to carry a wounded seal to water and so save its life. Eventually she goes home, for the first time since her marriage more concerned about herself than about her body or her children. As a small emblem of independence she wears her gray hair untinted. "The light that is the desire to please had gone...
...wears what most of the other girls wear, a light blouse, a dark skirt in the knees, and the company-issue green rubber thougs. Some days she makes a meek gesture of individuality and wears her yellow T-shirt with a smile emblem across the chest, and the English words "Love and Peace" below...
...gasped. Then it began explaining that 1) the tree was not "vulgar" but was a creation of the celebrated design firm of Raymond Loewy/William Snaith, creators of, among other things, the Coca-Cola bottle, and 2) the four-pointed star was not meant to be the bank's emblem, just another star of Bethlehem. Finally, said the bank, "we wish Mr. Hoving a very merry Christmas...
...deposit our sensations, which are themselves imbued with a specific social resonance, in the work. In this manner, a novel survives through time, and achieves a distinctive life in each epoch. So, if La Recherche du Temps Perdu stands neglected on the shelves, it still possesses an immense value, emblem of an irretrievable moment when such novels could be read...