Word: symbolically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Autry thus became the most vivid symbol to date of the seemingly endless legal confusion and complication that have characterized attempts to carry out the death penalty since the Supreme Court revived it in 1976. Recently, the court has sought to expedite the labyrinthine appeals process, but to little avail as yet. The Autry case seemed to be typical of how the Justices would like to see such cases handled. In 1980, Autry was sentenced to death for murdering Store Clerk Shirley Drouet, 43, in Port Arthur, Texas, when the mother of five asked...
...country's currency is usually regarded as a symbol of national vitality. A strong currency is seen as a sign of a vibrant, confident country; a weak one is considered an indication that a nation is on the skids. For nearly three years the U.S. dollar has been riding high, perhaps too high and for too long. Now the almighty dollar's very robustness is creating alarm both in the U.S. and abroad. Says Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige: "As the ancient Greeks said, 'An individual's faults are virtues carried to excess.' When the dollar...
...Boston, Superintendent Robert Spillane is improving one of the nation's most racially torn school systems. An apt symbol is South Boston High School, where whites clashed with blacks in the mid-'70s. Today Southie is a well-balanced school with a population of 856 students that is 43% black, 34% white, 11% Asian and 12% Hispanic. In 1976 Headmaster Jerome Winegar began an in-school suspension program: students who get into trouble are assigned special help under a supervising teacher instead of being
...around the Old City of Jerusalem. Within its ancient walls are nestled the holy sites of three world religions. By 10 a.m. the conquerors stood before the great boulders of the Wailing Wall, the only remnant of the Second Temple, that for 1,897 years has been the symbol of Jewish national hope-and despair. Said the tough commando leader who took the Wall: "None of us alive has ever seen or done anything so great as he has done today." And there by the Wall, he broke down and wept...
...spindly lunar module of Apollo 11. Then he extended his left foot, cautiously, tentatively, as if testing water in a pool. That groping foot, encased in a heavy multilayered boot (size 9½B), would remain indelible in the minds of millions who watched it on TV, and a symbol of man's determination to step-and forever keep stepping-toward the unknown...