Word: symbolically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...become one of the Communist world's most charismatic figures. When he scaled the gates of Lenin Shipyard in the Baltic port of Gdansk last August, Walesa did far more than seize the reins of an angry strike movement. To millions of Polish workers, he became the symbol of their dreams for a better life. In the process, he helped launch a bold experiment to bend the rigid lines of Communism in a new direction-and hurled a defiant challenge at Moscow's control over its East European satellites...
...blindfolded face has become a symbol of both personal and national agony - the continuing ordeal of the 52 American hostages remaining in Iran, and the grinding frustration of a U.S. that has been unable to win their release from almost 14 months in captivity. But to the millions who see his often published picture, he is a man without identity, the unknown hostage. The State Department will not disclose his name, for fear of upsetting his already distraught family...
...their voices could be heard. Some sat beside the monsignor at a long table in a sparsely decorated-and thus unidentifiable-room. Only a Christmas tree brightened the scene. It was adorned with trinkets made by the Americans and topped by a yellow ribbon, a traditional American symbol of separated sweethearts. Some read statements into microphones; others spoke without notes. A few sat in easy chairs and looked into the cameras. Some stood alone. In the films, obviously censored once again, the voices were sometimes clipped abruptly. The shots of Robert Ode showed him starting his statement seated...
Precisely at midnight, Poland's Communist-controlled radio gulped, then sent out over the air waves the combined symbol of the nation's rebirth and peril: midnight Mass. Though most Poles were at that moment in their own parish churches, the broadcast from Cracow's Wawel Cathedral, the former seat of Archbishop Karol Wojtyla, was a telling concession from the country's atheist government to the changes that have swept the land in the past four months. As if the Mass were not unusual enough, Pope John Paul II-who after his election two years...
Walesa is a devout Roman Catholic who rarely misses morning Mass. A wood-and-silver crucifix is prominently displayed wherever he speaks. On his left lapel he always wears a badge depicting the Black Madonna of Czestochowa, the revered symbol of Polish nationalism. He wrote a widely reproduced prayer that begins, "Virgin Mary, I come to you in the total modesty of my heart...