Word: emblemmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...public figures at whom he tees off at a banquet or on television; yet they cannot wait to tee off with him on the links the next day. He kids the starch out of them, and they feel better for it; a needle from Hope becomes an emblem instead of a scar...
...substitute for sexual potency. For Bonnie also, the gun is a release from the unfulfilled monotony of a West Dallas greasy-spoon. They fall in love, and a large part of the film is devoted to their specifically sexual frustrations, not as a clinical case study but as an emblem of waste and entropy...
...said, she "liked rice very much." An old woman chose Dzu's white-dove ticket thinking it was a chicken. Dzu used the dove symbol to dramatize his peace platform, but in fact only highly educated Vietnamese were likely to have made the connection: the dove as an emblem of peace is a notion largely unfamiliar to the Vietnamese. Dzu took it from a Christmas card mailed to him from the U.S. by a fellow Rotarian...
Levin's point in his proxy battles was that the management of MGM under President Robert H. O'Brien had been lax. As he saw it, the company that has Leo the Lion as its emblem too often roared, then sat down. Actually, Levin lost the proxy fights because most stockholders agreed that Leo had become more and more leonine...
...rear. Usually, his reaction is to tramp on the accelerator and do battle. But the prudent motorist respectfully pulls into the right lane when he sees a blue and white me dallion on a weasel-like grille barreling down upon him. And with good reason, for it is the emblem of the sleek five-seater produced by the Bayerische Motoren Werke. The BMW can outperform and overtake almost any standard German car on the autobahn. This year it proved that it could outdo its competitors in the market place as well: amidst a general economic slowdown and dwindling car sales...