Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only Woodrow Wilson's name had ever stood so high as a symbol of world hope. Now Franklin Roosevelt had achieved what Woodrow Wilson had not: he had won an endorsement by the people of his general international program...
Poland. "The restoration of free Poland is the outstanding symbol of what we are fighting for. . . . Mr. Roosevelt undertook to handle this matter personally and secretly with Mr. Stalin. Mr. Roosevelt has not yet even secured Russian recognition of those whom we consider to be the true Government of Poland." (This invited another spanking from the Soviet official press, which had already called Dewey a provocateur for his Pulaski Day address-TIME...
...disillusioned"' middle classes in the Party's progressive program. With pride Party chiefs pointed to the good Liberal showing in recent by-elections, higher Party enrollments, the constant stream of requests, many from the services, for expositions of Liberal policy. With old Bev as a symbol of rejuvenated Liberalism, Liberals talked of winning 100 seats in the next election...
Millions of Americans, who had almost forgotten Al Smith the politician, remembered him as a symbol of a wonderful era-the years of the never-ending bull market, of the hip flask, of F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Dempsey fights. Al Smith's hoarse and genial East Side voice, his chewed cigar, his violent pajamas and his rasping expletive, "Baloney!" belonged to the fabulous '20s as much as It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo'. He was against the Volstead Act; and in the '20s the U.S. almost elected him its President...
...five years Britons had coped with wartime hardships: blackout, rationing, bombs, robombs and plain, ordinary fatigue. But above all they were fed up with restrictions-of which the long-continued blackout was almost the symbol. The blackout had been partially lifted...