Word: symbolisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Moral. The authority granted General Ely last week is both a consequence and a symbol of the vast new peacetime role De Gaulle has given France's army. Famed for courage-Ely wears the Croix de guerre with six citations (both World Wars and Indo China), still carries his arm in a sling as a result of a World War II wound-France's top active soldier has rare prestige with the French officer corps...
...questioned Garcia's need of a presidential yacht at a time when he is urging austerity on his fellow countrymen. Diosdado Macapagal, Garcia's Vice President and political enemy, promised that if he won the next presidential election he would sell the yacht, because she "is a symbol of extravagance at the height of the people's economic suffering...
With good Marxist resolutions and a holiday cease-fire on the Quemoy "front," Red China last week marked the beginning of a new lunar year-the Year of the Pig. To Chinese, the pig is a symbol of prosperity. Given last year's vaunted "great leap forward" in the Year of the Dog in the production of everything from steel to sesame seeds, and given all their own hard work, mainland China's hard-pressed masses had every reason to expect to be eating higher on the hog. Instead, they are living through some of the hardest times...
...player-conditioning program during spring training for the Cincinnati Redlegs. ¶ Australia's talented batsmen had no trouble at all surpassing England's 510 runs in their second innings without losing a wicket, won their third of the best-of-five test matches to regain the Ashes, symbol of cricket supremacy between the two nations since 1882. Wailed London's Daily Mail: "The worst and most humiliating failure by an English overseas team for many a decade." ¶In Boston, Air Force Lieut. Bill Dellinger, 25-year-old University of Oregon graduate, took advantage of a fast...
...still armed with the rifles, pistols and knives with which they won their freedom. The name "barbudo" (beard) is derived from the fact that most of these men wore long beards and or curly hair. The beards are currently being retained by most of Castro's followers as a symbol of their identity, at least until they return to the distant agrarian provinces from which they were recruited...