Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lighter defeat was a bitter one for Gillette, which introduced its butane-fueled throwaway in 1972 and used a bright Jiminy Cricketlike creature as the product's symbol. But Bic, the American subsidiary of France's Societe Bic, jumped into the market the following year and quickly pulled ahead...
...rewarded American women immediately. Defense plants provided them with their first paychecks and a chance to get out of the house. Rosie the Riveter became an overnight symbol of competence and independence, though not all women finished work looking like Goldie Hawn in Swing Shift. Peggy Terry, who loaded shells at a plant in Viola, Ky., recalls that the tetryl in explosives turned skin, hair and eyeballs orange: "The only thing we worried about," she says, "was other women thinking we had dyed our hair." Evelyn Fraser, a former WAC captain in Europe, had more somber preoccupations: "The shocking thing...
Feminists, says the author, have belatedly recognized that their resentment against a male-dominated society is sometimes misdirected against their sons. For some mothers a male child can become a symbol of male oppression. One concerned activist has put a lid on the more rabid rhetoric when her son is around, explaining, "How can he not grow up to be hostile toward women if they always seem so hostile...
...Libyan jets over the Gulf of Sidra, the jolt of home-team pride was strong, and the taking of tiny Grenada last year prompted more V-G-day celebrating than seemed strictly appropriate. Jesse Jackson's presidential candidacy, despite the antagonisms it sometimes stirred, was a salutary symbol of black progress. The Democrats' historic nomination of a woman for Vice President added to the political selfesteem. The high spirits surrounding the Olympic Games struck some observers as jingoistic and ungracious. But with American athletes winning nearly everything in sight, the country was able to see itself...
...pennants and watch a baseball game." Nowhere but in America-and Japan and South Korea and the Dominican Republic and Cuba, and so what? Let her feel patriotic when she watches the Dodgers play ball. The Olympic torch had nothing to do with patriotism either; indeed, it is a symbol of supranationalism. But as the torch zigzagged among them from east to west this summer, people waved flags, cried and sang America the Beautiful...