Word: symbolic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...force with thousands of planes, four surface fleets and the world's largest flotilla of submarines. Most formidable of all were its 1,400 land-based intercontinental missiles tipped with nuclear warheads. While most of the world regarded this arsenal with dread, Soviet citizens proudly viewed it as a symbol of national greatness...
...will be faced with paying the bill. Even such pro-monarchy stalwarts as constitutional scholar Lord St. John (pronounced Sin-gin) of Fawlsey say that "in this day and age, the income-tax exemption is pretty hard to defend." But he deplores any further changes. "The monarchy is the symbol of our national unity...
...planning to bring the campus minority organizations together at a rally for minority representation in the faculty and the curriculum. We were going to meet early at the John Harvard statue, that symbol that somehow denies us so much. Wearing our warmest clothes (all black, of course), and armed with witty chants and wittier posters, we would walk down to the stadium entrances across the river. But no one was interested in helping me bring this plan together...
...central visual image of this season's most eagerly awaited American play is a towering wall, like the facade of some Greek Revival government colossus, with two jagged cracks running from top to bottom. Before a word is spoken, this symbol -- with its promise of that facade's eventually cracking wide open -- conveys the aura of physical decay and revolutionary social change that drives Tony Kushner's 7 1/2-hr. epic about AIDS, gay liberation and the breakdown of the Reagan era's sanctimonious hypocrisy...
Ever since Harvard's building boom in the early 1800s, red brick buildings have remained a symbol of old New England industrial Yankee charm...