Word: symbolical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...State of Israel-founded on ideals and aspirations as old as time-will flourish as a living symbol of humanitarian civilization at least until the end of TIME...
...Dutch do not despair, but they know that unless the German and Indonesian trades are restored or replaced, the fate of Hoorn may become the fate of the whole nation. The symbol of Dutch confidence is Juliana...
...Kolman, are "fascist and imperialist." Jean Paul Sartre's existentialism is "a variety of sly apology for capitalism." (Fortunately there were no existentialists in the house.) The U.S., he continued, is trying to subject the world to economic bondage. "The world must fight the parasitical rapacious principle, the symbol of which is the abdomen, the worst enemy of the constructive principle, the symbols of which are human hands and brain...
...gifts with peddlers on the streets. His office door was always open to a Japanese. Unlike MacArthur, he got around, made friends with hundreds of big and little Japanese. To the Japanese, aloof, impersonal Douglas MacArthur had supplanted their Emperor as the personification of supreme authority. Eichelberger became a symbol of U.S. democracy and fairness. Many Japanese said "Aikerubaga" in the same affectionate tone used by many of his soldiers in calling him "Uncle...
...Ceylon. "The last we saw of India . . . was a wizened beggar signaling us frantically for baksheesh. When none was forthcoming, he threw aside his servile manner and, bounding beside our porthole, dynamically thumbed his nose at us until we outdistanced him. It was a touching, and somehow an apt, symbol of the amity between our two great nations...