Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conviction punished with 39 lashes"-and the place has not changed much since. Generations-old Greek Revival homes grace the white residential district; the Hotel Albert, built with slave labor and patterned after the Doge's Palace in Venice, is a first-rate inn. But the symbol of Selma is Sheriff James Clark, 43, a bully-boy segregationist who leads a club-swinging, mounted posse of deputy volunteers, many of them Ku Klux Klansmen...
...legs and returned to his cage, where his mate Regina awaited. "It's good to have him back," said a zoo official. "He is used to people and good square meals." Many a Londoner would take wistful exception. As the Daily Mail put it, Goldie "is the flying symbol of all men lost in urban civilization." Added the Daily Telegraph's editorial page: "Perhaps we are all mirrored in the behavior of Goldie, victims of the welfare state, tending to lose our self-reliance and mobility...
...last month, triumphantly displaying the former colonial government's long-promised portfolio of shares in the Congo's Belgian-owned industries, than he was racing to consolidate his success politically. Crowing that the "return of the portfolio" was the equivalent of political and economic independence -and the symbol of national dignity-Tshombe flew off for a conference with other political leaders in Luluabourg. The object was to form an electoral alliance that would carry him through to victory, give him if possible a majority in both the National Assembly and Senate. That takes some doing, since the Congo...
Straightening up, the visitor cupped his hand slightly and delivered the forward chop of his arm that is his symbol. "Adelante," he said. Forward...
...bisect her bikini, was also haled into court. Their lawyer argued that the law defines the "outrage to decency" crime as "exhibiting one's sexual parts or making obscene or lascivious gestures." He called Claudine innocent on both counts. "Bare breasts are not an erotic but an alimentary symbol," he said. As for Claudine's pingpong, was it more "lascivious" than the nightly show at the Folies-Bergere...