Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...signs indicated that Heinrich Himmler, after Hitler the No. i symbol of Naziism, had handed over the reins only when, and because, his efforts to surrender separately had failed. Donitz was an ardent Nazi, but the Allies knew him chiefly as an all-too-brilliant naval commander. He, too, failed to win a separate peace, but he had the satisfaction of seeing most of his Navy give up to the British. Only after the last German step had been taken according to German plan was an Allied check placed upon the maneuvers of Donitz and his associates in the last...
...Shinto that molded the Emperor of Japan into its supreme symbol. Hirohito has seldom, if ever, deviated from its exacting practices...
...Model Symbol. In Asia, Japan was making history whose consequences for the world are still incalculable. Through it all, Hirohito remained a model Shinto sovereign-conventional, secluded, aloof, a proper family man as well as national deity. He rose early each morning (6 or 7 a.m.), shaved himself, bowed before the little shrine of his ancestors in his copper-domed Tokyo castle, breakfasted in foreign style on coffee, bacon & eggs, shuffled through the papers on his desk. Thirteen times a year, clad in the white silk robe of high priest, he officiated at major Shinto rites. His wartime frugality...
Several thousand Americans and Australians observed V-E day by killing Japanese soldiers in such places as Okinawa, the Philippines, Tarakan. To them the symbol V-E did not exactly spell victory. It spelt something like this: now we can get full power for our war; now we can win it and get home sooner...
...Republican committee members, wistfully talking of high-tariff prosperity and solidly opposed to further reductions, Henry Wallace looked like a symbol of their discontent. They quizzed him about everything from killing pigs to full em ployment. To Minnesota's finance-minded Harold Knutson he looked like the fattest target he had seen in months...