Word: yoing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many legal experts consider the decision an aberration and hope that other courts will ignore it, but the new test will hardly make it easier to protect trademarks. Among those lost over the years: Thermos, Aspirin, Cellophane, Zipper and Yo-Yo. Xerox fights desperately with ads and public relations efforts to keep its name from slipping into generic usage. The makers of Sanka are waging the same war. Anspach had sold 525,000 copies of Anti-Monopoly before he was stopped. (Parker Brothers sells more than 2 million of the original each year.) He now hopes to get his games...
Santa, in fact, is all over the Locks' shop. There are 10-inch figures of Santa holding a tennis racquet, or slouching over canes. There are Santa yo-yos and candles in the shape of the big red gift-giver. There are Santa hats and Santa pictures, Santa frisbees and Santa mugs and Santa music boxes...
...physician sits in an exclusive Manhattan club, spinning a long-ago yarn. He recalls the terror he once saw on the face of an ambulance driver, "His eyes widening until it seemed they must slip from their orbits and simply dangle from their optic nerves like grotesque seeing yo...
...compulsive." Does this mean yet another Safiresque sermon on proper usage and the maintenance of grammatical traditions? No, Dickson has no ideological purpose. He is the amiable spieler who wrote such frivolities as The Great American Ice Cream Book and The Mature Person's Guide to Kites, Yo-Yos, Frisbees . . . As for words, he nuzzles them all with puppyish enthusiasm...
...south west corner of the Yard is a gate bearing in its comet arch, the directive, "Open yo the Gates that the righteous Nation which keeps the truth Entereth in." But this entrance between Strauss Hall and Lahrriun Hall will be locked at least until the middle of September as construction workers move it forward a few feet...