Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Christian Politics. Walking among the delegates as a symbol of both totalitarian oppression and church unity was frail Pastor Martin Niemöller, who after eight years in concentration camps is a leader of Germany's newly combined churches.* His presence helped the assembled churchmen to see that the Council's major objectives-upholding the Christian witness in the secular world, and uniting the Church of Christ-were really two different aspects of the same thing...
Burr (who was actually married and a father at the time),seems to have the inside track until the lady begins to feel the first faint stirrings of political consciousness. Then she recognizes egocentric Senator Burr as the symbol of anti-democratic thinking. Madison, on the other hand, suddenly personifies not only the Will-of-the-People but also True Love. As the wife of Secretary of State Madison, Dolly (Ginger), looking far too regal ever to have been Fred Astaire's hoofing partner, sweeps into the White House to act as widower President Jefferson's official hostess...
...above the lofty capital, a group of 27 U.S. Superfortresses glinted in the bright, winter sun. Jet fighters streaked by. Inside Mexico City's brilliant, white marble Palacio de Bellas Artes, outgoing chief executive Manuel Avila Camacho gave over the red, white and green band that was his symbol of office, and an aide quickly adjusted it diagonally across the chest of angular Miguel Alem...
Twenty million Mexicans had a new President. The 2,500 Mexican big shots and distinguished foreign guests inside the auditorium-General Jonathan Wainwright and U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snyder among others-applauded. Notably absent: ex-President Lázaro Cárdenas, symbol of the revolutionary left...
...About 2,000, including women with babies on their backs, slept in the subway; others grubbed for a roof in rusty tin sheds, converted barges, burned-out buses or the ruins of a temple. Curiously, the natives could scrape together enough lumber and rice straws to fashion a monstrous symbol: in the town of Sahara, a malevolently glowering American eagle was paraded in tribute to the new Japanese Constitution...