Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Road to Paris. Beyond the Plain of Caen, the road leads straight to Paris, 120 miles east. That fabulous prize was more than the hub of the whole intricate French rail network; it was the symbol of German victory and of French defeat. The Nazis would defend Paris as fiercely as Berlin. To halt an Allied drive on Paris they would throw in their entire strategic reserve-if they were sure that was where Monty was headed...
...treaty of Lausanne, fixing the country's borders, set up the small sanjak (sub-prefecture) of Alexandretta, between Syria and Turkey, as an "autonomous" region under French control. To the Turks, this Levantine Sudetenland, which they called the Hatay, was a symbol of humiliation. In 1939, Menemencioglu used France's fear of war and need of an ally to win back the Hatay for Turkey, thus forever endearing himself to all Turks...
...months ago a quetzal, rare and beautiful national bird of Guatemala, was brought to Guatemala City and put on exhibition in the zoo. The people were indignant; the quetzal, their symbol of freedom, was said to die if imprisoned.* They waited. Sure enough, the quetzal died. The people nodded their heads...
...Hairy Ape (United Artists), as Eugene O'Neill conceived him, was a one-man proletariat, a crude yet powerful symbol. A huge, half-demented ship's stoker, he was obsessed with the proud idea that he made the ship go, and ready to beat the brains out of anyone who attempted to gainsay him. He lost his mind when a slumming, crisply clad, attractive woman passenger, appalled (and excited) by his looks and language, recoiled and called him "the filthy beast!" At large ashore, he treated society much as an articulate King Kong might, and wound up in the killing...
...Christian Association, world's biggest international religious society for laymen, this week celebrates its 100th birthday. A fortnight earlier, the Y.M.C.A.'s grand old man had celebrated his 79th. John Raleigh Mott, during 56 years of intensive Y.M.C.A. activity, has become almost as much a symbol as the Y's red triangle...