Word: symbolizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...government yesterday barred the use of the international peace symbol as a commercial trademark, handing a victory to antiwar forces...
Commissioner of Patents William E. Schuyler Jr. refused registration of the circle and inverted "y" symbol in one case and then announced he is prohibiting its use for trademark purposes by other applicants...
Schuyler said he thought the symbol "could not properly function as a trademark subject to registration by the patent office...
...added that he has instructed the director of the trademark examining operation to refuse the application of Intercontinent Shoe Co. of New York to use the symbol...
...that nightly she seemed to triumph over her burdens in concerts that were a kind of cathartic theater of the young. Her exuberances, her frenzies, her "highs" set off chain explosions in the audiences. The quart bottle of Southern Comfort that she held aloft onstage was at once a symbol of her load and a way of lightening it. As she emptied the bottle, she grew happier, more radiant, and more freaked out. The spread of the feet grew wider, the stomp more frantic. The flopping mop of hair did its best, but could not completely hide the tightening grimace...