Word: symbolically
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Harry Truman buzzed the White House in a DC-4 called the Sacred Cow, which by 1945 had become a symbol of presidential power. Dwight Eisenhower, the only President to hold a pilot's license, moved us into the missile age and got a jet, a Boeing 707. John Kennedy got a newer one ("It's magnificent. I'll take it"), and the tradition of Air Force One was born at the same time Kennedy headed America for the moon...
...presence at Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearings on Reagan's nomination of Ernest W. Lefever as Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs. Timerman, who has become an Israeli citizen, was not invited to testify at the confirmation hearings, but he had evidently become a symbol of liberal opposition to Lefever's view that human rights questions should not interfere with U.S. alliances. When Committee Chairman Charles Percy introduced Timerman at the hearings, the applause was loud and demonstrative. Democratic Congressman Richard Ottinger of New York even wrote Timerman that if the committee rejected...
...more than three decades, the tall, big-boned prelate towered over the commissars as the most influential figure in Poland: spiritual leader of the nation's overwhelmingly (90%) Roman Catholic population, outspoken advocate of social and political rights, defiant symbol of Polish nationalism under the shadow of Soviet domination. When he died of abdominal cancer in Warsaw last week at the age of 79, he left behind the most powerful Catholic Church in the East bloc-and a nation whose political awakening has shaken the Communist world to its core...
...source of his activism and moral vision can be found. John says, in his upbringing. The youngest son of an Irish working class family recalls a representative symbol of his parents' attitude hanging in their living room: a picture of John F. Kennedy '40 and Pope John XXIII sowing the seeds of peace. Catholicism and liberal values were "part of the environment." John says. "There was a sense (in our home) that you looked out for people in need, and there was a great openness in our house," he remembers; hard-up relatives often stayed there...
...leap that began in 1945, when a line of people over half a mile long lined up in New York City to buy the symbol of the new post-war age--the ball point pen. Everyone, it seemed, wanted to be modern, and a pen that could write upside down (as well as under water) certainly seemed a step in the right direction. That same year, Harvard got into the modern act as well, as a committee to study the curriculum began to meet...