Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Suspect Symbol. All this seemed swell for Bobby, but it seemed anything but nice to Lyndon. The fact was that the President was dead set against Kennedy. He had his reasons. To many businessmen, whose votes and dollars Lyndon needs, Bobby is the suspect symbol of Government intervention. His name conjures up memories of antitrust actions, grand jury investigations, and the heavy hand of Government in the U.S. Steel confrontations...
...took no part in the anti-Diem coup, though it is clear that he knew about the plot in advance. A week before the coup took place, he began to grow his black goatee. Apparently he did not like what he saw ahead, and a beard was his enigmatic symbol of future plans. After three months of watching the bickering and lethargy of the Big Minh junta, Khanh arrived in the capital to attend an officers' meeting, quietly rallied some fellow officers, including the commander of troops surrounding Saigon, and on the night of Jan. 30 pulled...
...symbol of the Negro's perpetual alienation in the land of his birth." It is the archetypal Negro ghetto, and to some it is the black capital of the world. Says Wilt ("The Stilt") Chamberlain, pro basketball star and part owner of Small's Paradise, one of Harlem's remaining handful of clubs with live entertainment: "A Negro here is different from a Negro in Philly or Frisco because he belongs...
This week at services in Bonn and West Berlin, Julius Cardinal Döpfner of Munich and other German Christian leaders mark the 20th anniversary of the July 1944 plot against Hitler, which involved so many devout Christians that it has become the symbol of the Ehrenretter, the lay and clerical martyrs who tried to save the honor of Christianity in those dark years. Two of the martyrs appear on a new series of stamps issued by the Federal Republic, but there were many more-at least 112 Catholic priests and 22 Protestant ministers -who died in German prison camps...
...them. Though Indian women traditionally convert their cash into gold jewelry and even decorate their children with bangles and bracelets, the Burmese stripped departing Indians of all their jewelry. Many Hindu women were forced to give up the gold and black mangal sutra necklaces that they wear as a symbol of marriage...