Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Symbol of the grief was an unperturbed lad of 19 with an English name, Thomas Williams, who had lived in mediocrity and who died (by the rope) in glory, saying he died for Ireland. By the murder of a Belfast policeman last Easter Sunday morning, Thomas and five friends, said to be members of the outlawed Irish Republican Army, commemorated Eire's Easter Rebellion...
...quiet Jersey hamlet of West Milford last week, a small-town rumpus took on a national significance. The First Presbyterian Church (membership: 176) decided that the symbol of the church takes precedence over the symbol of the state. Despite the vigorous objections of Police Chief Somers Stites, the Presbyterians kept the Christian flag to the pastor's right and the Stars & Stripes to his left in their little white clapboard church...
...swung into action and insisted that the two flags be reversed. Pastor Lewis Gaston Leary refused to make the change. So Chief Stites made it himself. Dr. Leary changed the flags right back. Last week the governing body of his congregation backed his stand that the "most sacred symbol of our religion should be second to nothing." Said Dr. Leary, whose son is in uniform and whose sermons have previously been criticized for making "the eagle scream too much": "I don't think I shall be misunderstood when I say that is one of the freedoms for which...
...effort in a very particular way. A grand old soldier and dilettante sailor, patriotic American and courageous shouter, competent executive and tyro at strategy, a die-hard Republican who entered the Cabinet for a show of unity in the dark days after the fall of France, Knox is a symbol of the confusion, amateurism, divided authority, the lack of broad planning-and also of the good will -that characterized Washington last week...
Supporting Bennett, symbol of a Roosevelt defeat, was unthinkable for them...