Word: symbolically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...popular music of the sixties in England and America, more than anything, glorified youth. The kids rallied around rock 'n' roll, and the Beatles and the Stones and the Who and countless others churned out anthems for the under-thirty. Rock music soon became the symbol of everything the Establishment--businessmen, police, university faculties and administrations--hated, and the rock 'n' roll kids played on louder than ever and hated the Establishment right back...
...those ties are being strained anew by the determination of Israel and its lobby in Washington to block the sale to Saudi Arabia of airborne warning planes (AWACS) and other hardware that the Reagan Administration announced last week. Reagan, and Carter before him, chose to make this deal a symbol of the U.S.'s commitment to the security of Saudi Arabia. Whatever the wisdom of that original American decision, a reversal now would be damaging to U.S. interests. Therefore Congress should approve the sale...
...Pontiff would be assassinated ("Roman Pope do not approach the city which two rivers bathe/ Your blood and that of your followers will flow near this place when the rose will flower"). A rose? That had to refer to Mitterrand's election; after all, the flower is the symbol of the French Socialist Party. Within three months, Nostradamus had sold 232,000 copies...
...with the Pope several days before his operation, Poland's new Primate Jozef Glemp declared that John Paul will "almost certainly" be traveling next year. As it happens, next year Poland will be marking the 600th anniversary of the arrival of the nation's most venerated religious symbol, the Black Madonna of Czestochowa, clearly a celebration the former Cardinal from Cracow would move heaven and earth not to miss...
...charged that the dam would rob the Nile Valley of the silt that had made it fertile. They predicted increased salinity of the land, and warned of a sharp rise in water-borne diseases like schistosomiasis. They also anticipated erosion of the Nile Delta. The great dam became a symbol of Third World development gone awry...