Word: symbolisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Yassin, 61, imprisoned since 1989, has served as a rallying symbol for Hamas, an Islamic movement that aims to destroy Israel. His failing health had prompted some Israeli officials in recent years to recommend his release for fear his death in custody would prompt even more Hamas-sponsored carnage. Others have worried that Yassin was too dangerous to go free. They had prevailed until the early hours of last Wednesday, when Yassin was transported secretly by ambulance from an Israeli prison hospital to an airstrip in Tel Aviv. From there a Jordanian royal helicopter flew him to the King Hussein...
...basmati rice and topped with shredded asiago cheese and lightly toasted pine nuts. I would never take out-of-towners to Murray's. Nobody whom I wanted to impress. Only my dearest friends. Only old Minnesota pals who grew up with Murrayism and know it as a symbol of all we hold dear...
...BGLTSA members designed signs at "creativity day," a poster-making event, according to Sulmers. The posters featured a spectrum of slogans such as: "Homophobia is so passe" and a Guess Jeans symbol with the slogan "Guess...
Washington Square centers around Catherine Sloper, a young woman whose individual identity is constantly undermined by her relations to the men around her. Her father sees in Catherine the ghost of his wife, who died in childbirth, and thus continually perceives her as a disappointment, a symbol of his own loss. "At the beginning of the film," says Holland, "Catherine seems 'stupid' because the father and the aunt see her that...
When it was founded 44 years ago, Petrobras, Brazil's state-controlled oil company, was a vital symbol of national pride. "The oil is ours" was an oft-repeated slogan. Politicians embraced Petrobras as an indispensable, state-owned bastion against foreign ownership and domination. But now foreigners and locals alike can profit from Petrobras' dominance in one of the emerging world's most dynamic markets...