Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Music. Even Berlin caught it, not once but twice on successive nights, not token-wise but in two crashing raids. For the first time in more than 14 months (except for several light raids by Russian bombers) Allied aircraft wheeled in "strong force" (meaning hundreds) over the camouflaged symbol of the Reich's indestructibility...
...Last week several hundred thousand Muscovites rode on a new, four-mile subway line connecting central Sverdlov Square with the industrial area close to the immense Stalin auto plant, long ago converted to war production. Moscow's palatial Metro, now about ten miles long, remains at once a symbol of the brave new world the Russians hope to build, and a godsend to factory workers who save two hours daily getting to & from their eleven-hour shifts...
...through clay under the capital, circumventing subterranean streams, pouring reinforced concrete, installing ornate chandeliers and inserting mosaics. For while Russia's leaders have long preached and practiced sacrifice in the name of their country and their ideas, they have always striven to keep before the people some great symbol, beautiful and useful, so that any shawl-swathed peasant woman, any unshaven, fur-clad Siberian trapper could come to Moscow, stare openmouthed in admiration, and then return and tell her village, his people: "This is what we are building for everyone...
...Nazis seized their country, Yugoslav soldiers made their way to their ancient refuge, the hills. There Mihailovich, the ranking officer, assumed command of guerrilla fighting. His valor and the skill of his soldiers captured the world's headlines. To much of the outside world, Mihailovich became a symbol of freedom.*But to many Yugoslav patriots, intellectuals and peasants, he became a symbol of the discredited Belgrade government clique and the Kara George dynasty which first gave Yugoslavia dictatorial King Alexander, then, after his assassination, a Fascist-minded set of regents while King Peter was growing...
...passed up Herbert Hoover, newly elected to put two chickens in every pot?because 1928 was the businessmen's year and Walter P. Chrysler was their symbol. When Business crashed in 1929 we passed by Hoover again, skipped over Explorer Byrd and Peace-Pacter Kellogg in favor of Owen D. Young, just back from Paris with his hopeful plan for settling Europe's troubles...