Word: mascotism
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...auction should bring in somewhere between $15 million and $30 million, which will help pay off the fair's $216 million deficit. Some of that cash will come from Expo 86 officials themselves. Expo Ernie, the stainless-steel and acrylic computerized robot that served as the fair's mascot, was acquired by Expo President Jim Pattison. Price...
...became our mascot," said sectionmate Lisbeth Barron. "Anything that must have gone wrong Betsy must have done it." Added Jonathan Bower, "Betsy nosed out Mr. Potato Head for our affection." One student is rumored to have handed in a final exam with Spence's name...
...refused to take advantage of the G.I. Bill because he has always loathed the idea of using the government's money for self-improvement. And now, in his old age, he rejects social security and medicare. Make way for Juan Jackson-Goldstein, arrayed on the balcony beside Nancy, another mascot for the Reagan Revolution...
...fish, a central part of the house shield, became Cabot's mascot after the Loeb Drama Center donated a 15-foot wooden version of the aquatic creature last year. The fish motif reappeared throughout yesterday's festivities, taking such forms as a Fish-shaped cake, a fishnet hanging from the ceiling by the entrance, and gummiFish and goldFish crackers sprinkled liberally in bowls throughout the reception room...
...first recorded pranks occurred before the 1933 game, when bulldog Handsome Dan, the Yale mascot, was kidnapped by Harvard students, drugged, brought to Cambridge and not fed for several days...