Word: trademark
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...presence felt with a characteristic indifference to protocol, notably the tacit understanding that a freshman Congressman ranks slightly above a page boy. It is already part of Capitol Hill mythology that when the courtly House doorkeeper, Mississippian William ("Fish Bait") Miller, asked her not to wear one of her trademark broadbrim hats onto the House floor, she briskly replied, "Go f -yourself." Actually, Fish Bait says, the exchange was jocular; they are "big buddies...
...cool has been perfected close to the point of impenetrable mannerism. Playing a racing driver in Le Mans, he only stands in front of the camera and allows himself to be photographed. Occasionally his lips will twitch into that shy, strong, ironic half-smile that he has made his trademark. In really grandiose scenes he may make a gesture. He might even wave. But only under pressure...
...Cincinnati Red games in 1932. His enthusiastic delivery carried him to prosperity and New York, where he teamed with the Yankees' Mel Allen. In 1949 Hodges began his 22-year stint as "Voice of the Giants." His "Bye, Bye Baby" blessing for each Giant home run became his trademark and endured, as he did, when the Giants moved to San Francisco...
...main purpose of their petition is its "harassment value," Cynthia Mollenkopf, another second-year Law student and one of the signers, said yesterday. "It is mostly to preserve a procedural opposition; or the trademark would just go on without a hearing." If the petition is accepted, hearings will be held this summer in Washington...
...women hope that the petition will excite New York women's groups into harassing and picketing Longchamps Restaurant until it withdraws its trademark from the patent office...