Word: symbolically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MOST TROUBLING Infielder Ray Knight, symbol of New York Mets comebacks, will not come back next year. Cash was his problem. Pitcher Dwight Gooden's problem is undetermined after a brawl with Tampa police...
...much of the outside world, Mandela's wife Winnie, 52, has become his surrogate and a symbol of the fight against South Africa's racial repression. Only 27 when her husband was sent to prison, Winnie has been banned, held in solitary confinement for months at a time, restricted and sent into domestic exile. During that time she has developed into a combative leader in her own right. Her public appearances regularly set off huge dancing demonstrations, and at the funerals of blacks killed in racial unrest, she is often carried on the shoulders of singing youths. Winnie claims...
...symbol remains. After watching the smiling shots seen 'round the world, no dictator can sleep quite so easily. And dissidents everywhere now have a stirring precedent and talisman to invoke. Says Congressman Stephen Solarz, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs: "I have found that from Poland to Pakistan and from South Korea to South Africa, those who are committed to democracy see in Aquino a sense of enduring inspiration. She is probably the most popular head of state in the world today...
...mayors, regardless of performance, replaced with sometimes unqualified people of her own. She then switched to the other extreme, often dithering over critical decisions. Gradually, however, as the year wore on, Cory the Chief Executive and the Commander in Chief began to prove as surprising as Cory the Symbol. When challenges arose, the novice rose to meet them. While followers of Defense Minister Enrile unsettled Manila with constant threats of a coup, Aquino coolly went about her business. Then in late November, once she was absolutely sure of the military's support and confident of backing from Washington, she fired...
...have any contempt for Duluth left. I know a great deal more about the city now, but I still don't totally understand how I became such a symbol...