Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Franklin Roosevelt, who knew him well, he was a good and accurate source of information. To the Russians he was increasingly a symbol of military success-as the war drew to its close, their habitual reserve melted. Soviet officials went to movies at Spasso House. At official parties Harriman was almost lionized by high officers of the U.S.S.R. For hours on V-E day, crowds of Moscow citizens demonstrated outside his window...
White bread-the symbol of American plenty-would have to be displaced by a grey-or cream-colored bread*; the President decreed that wheat flour be made from 80% instead of the normal 70% of the whole grain. Production of whiskey and of other grain alcohol beverages would have to be cut back to wartime levels. Beer brewing would have to be cut by 30% (back to the 1940 rate). The wartime set-aside of pork for Government purchase was reinstated. The President warned the U.S. that it might even have to go back to meat rationing...
...coma, Robert (Robert Donat) moves speechless and heavy-lidded about the drab little flat. First, the clean collar, the neat cravat. Then a cup of tea, a glance at the clock, a peek at the barometer, and down the stairs and off to his job as a bookkeeper, a symbol of hopeless, conventional timidity...
Another book on the War between the States has appeared, to remind Americans that their greatest war is still the one fought in America between Americans. The Beleaguered City is a sometimes lively, sometimes somber, always exciting description of the Confederate capital during its four-year ordeal as the symbol of victory to both North and South...
...Soil. The man for whom London and Washington were speaking was the symbol of another new Poland. This one too was antifascist, but democratic, willing to be Russia's friend but not its vassal. At 45, sturdy, strong-shouldered Stanislaw Mikolajczyk is unquestionably his country's most popular political leader. Barring a rigged election or sudden death, he and his peasant followers seemed likely to emerge from any fair test at the polls as Poland's No. 1 political faction...