Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Truman Administration had drawn together proposals which bore the symbol "H.R. 4280" and the name of irascible Representative Andrew Jackson May, chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee. May's group and a special Senate committee held hearings, got advice from scientists so strongly worded and with such a weight of learning behind it that something like the May bill seemed sure to pass...
Every character is a well known symbol--the befuddled liberal (Tracy), the reactionary clubbish business man, the intellectual Jew, the American Legion bartender. The dialogue has been so widely used it should be a familiar acquaintance of every theatre goer the eulogy on the meaning of democracy, the reminiscence over 'how we first met," the confused self-analysis while wandering in and out of a maze of chaises lounges...
...duty of every American to eliminate all political machines, large or small, so that the Constitution of the United States of America may live on as an inspiration to the world at large. We cannot hope to lead the world as a symbol of freedom and humanitarianism when we allow dozens of would-be Hitlers to thrive in our own country...
Editors might have known that the journey of one plane would be small news to a public used to reading about 1,000-plane flights through ack-ack and enemy fighters. The Globester was a symbol of the postwar scrabble for news. The war's communiqués had given the press news readymade; now editors had to cut the cloth to fit, for themselves...
Those who look upon the morning milk as one wholesome symbol of purity in an otherwise sullied world may not feel quite the same after reading this book. A long, character-full novel of rancor, frustration, and sex in a commercial dairy, by Sergeant Josiah E. Greene, 34, ex-writer of pulp thrillers and children's stories, Not in Our Stars has won the $2,500 Macmillan Centenary Award. With an impressively technical knowledge of modern milk-producing, a smooth, unpretentious narrative style, and a good ear for dialogue, Author Greene makes his managers, drivers, barn boys and farm...