Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Filipinos in happier days, the Government-owned Manila Hotel had been something-something more than a big, square, sturdy building, usually brimming with Americans and noisy with their doings. To Manilans it was the "Grand Hotel of the Orient" and they were proud of it as a symbol of Manila's progress. Its penthouse was the residence of General Douglas MacArthur and a floor or two below, in an apartment overlooking the harbor, lived Admiral Tommy Hart, commander of the U.S. Asiatic fleet...
Sirs: Is it not strange that the same people who were so recently giving their sons and moral support to a bloody war so we might have peace, have now begun to cry about their homestead rights when their land is needed to house the symbol of peace? JOHN T. CROWE, M.D. St. Louis
...scaffold stood in a Philippine cane field near the old Japanese torture camp of Los Banos. In the early morning (3:02 a.m.), under the glare of three floodlights, Lieut. General Tomoyuki Yamashita strode up its 13 steps, his big bulk dressed in a U.S. Army fatigue outfit -the symbol of military disgrace ordered by his conqueror, General Douglas MacArthur...
...naval shore stations and a naval dockyard in Bombay Harbor. For two days their ships, deployed in battle line along the harbor wall, defied the British. At Castle Barracks, where besieging British troops fought barricaded Indians, the mutineers turned their artillery on the Bombay Yacht Club (the very symbol of British racial supremacy), where no Indian may enter. At Karachi, Indian naval ratings seized the sloop Hindustan, dueled with British batteries along the waterfront for 25 minutes before running up the white flag...
...Smith was only a symbol: the prosecution was after the system and the man it held responsible for the system-Kilian. A contempt of court charge against Kilian (TIME, Feb. 18) was already prepared. Others were reported to be in the making, one involving conspiracy. The imperious colonel had the hot potato, and had need of a miracle...