Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blowing summer tree in the wasted city, children picking their way, with touching shyness, among freshly ruined homes. It also has some intensely exciting shots of the bombs in flight, fantastic as Buck Rogers and intimately sinister as a noise in the wall, a weirdly terrible expression and symbol of the enemy. And there is one tremendous moment when, in one of the most sensational scenes of the war, a V-1 is caught on the wing by a British plane, roars the screen full of its disappointed death...
...Raynault, mindful of Houde's colorful personality and his record as an anticonscriptionist, was on the defensive. Said he: "This is not the time nor the place nor the moment to say whether my opponent was right in 1940." Answered Houde: "In the present struggle, I am a symbol whether you like...
...Empty Symbol. At the gate of the Royal Palace, fierce, shabby Partisans mounted guard. But the palace was an empty symbol. Young King Peter, exiled in London, might never live there again. Boys & girls of the Serbian Anti-Fascist Youth Congress chanted: "We don't want Peter, we want Tito." Said Tito: "Old Balkan differences will never again appear in the Balkans...
...symbol of the unity of purpose of students throughout the world and in commemoration of the hundreds of Czech students killed and tortured on November 17, 1930, today will be observed as international Students...
...Chiang Kai-shek's first foreign Chief of Staff, Stilwell was the symbol of China's hope in the abiding aid and friendship...