Word: symbolically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...radios in the inner city blared his fights on hot summer nights, and street dances followed his victories. He toured the world, met F.D.R., and New York Mayor James Walker floridly proclaimed, "You laid a rose on Abraham Lincoln's grave." Louis was uncomfortable in the role of symbol. "Jesus Christ, am I all that?" he asked. He was, and could reflect in 1978, "I've been in a whole lot of fights inside the ring and outside. I like to think I won most of them...
Following music performed outside Lehman Hall by members of the Harvard Band, a University official and a disabled student leader gave short talks before unfurling a white flag bearing a red symbol, a design selected by the advisory committee after the U.N. proclaimed the year in a resolution passed five years...
...people had ever heard of Karen Silkwood on that fatal winter day, but over the next five years her death sparked rallies and candlelight processions in New York, Chicago, St. Petersburg and Cleveland. A symbol for the feminists, the environmentalists, and the labor movement, her name was shouted at Seabrook and invoked in union halls. In 1979, when a federal court jury found Kerr-McGee guilty of negligience and awarded the Silkwood estate $10.5 million in damages, her picture made the front pages of papers across the nation. She became what Richard Rashke calls "a nuclear martyr...
...Ronald Reagan the Republican presidential nomination last year and contributed to the defeat of such pro-choice Senators as Birch Bayh of Indiana and John Culver of Iowa. Every Jan. 22, on the anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, the antiabortion forces march on Washington, sending a red rose-the symbol of their cause-to each member of Congress. Nellie Gray, organizer of this March for Life, warns that legislators who vote for abortion "will be held accountable, just as the Nuremberg trials found individuals personally responsible for crimes committed against humanity." This year the march drew more than...
Some of the designs, ordered by parents to commemorate young children, are heartrending. One pictures a leaf blowing off the tree of life. Adults often choose occupational symbols: a sewing machine, a policeman's badge, a B-52 in remembrance of a Boeing employee who was loyal to the bitter end. There are also golfers, fishermen, a teen-ager's customized 1965 Mustang complete to the license plate BAD NUZ, and a skier taking off on a jump, above the legend BILL WENT FOR IT. One woman had her stone engraved with four aces over the Christian symbol...