Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bidets, in fact, are consolidating a small beachhead on U.S. shores. A symbol of sophisticated familiarity with European plumbing, the French "little horse" is now being offered by twelve U.S. manufacturers in three basic models at about $100 each, and jokes about "handsome foot baths" are definitely square...
...According to Alfons Wotschitzky, director of the Archaeological Institute of the University of Innsbruck, "The egglike objects just above [Artemis'] waist, formerly considered as multiple female breasts, are now correctly interpreted as ostrich eggs decorating her garment. Ostrich eggs, as a symbol of fertility, may still be found today in nearly every Greek village church...
...came into the Alpine State Bank in Rockford, III., in Santa Claus costumes, locked the employees in a vault and made off with $36,000. Finally, there was Christmas acoming; in Boston, live reindeer pranced on the Common, not far from a creche with a sign that was a symbol of the times. In Manhattan's Rockefeller Center, a regal, 60-ft. Norway spruce blazed with thousands of lights and shiny aluminum spangles...
...impoverished northeast provinces, Sarit set in motion a crash $300 million program of medical, economic and educational development that undercut the Red threat. Though his rule was absolute, he always knelt before Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej, encouraged Thais to accept the King as head of state and symbol of national unity...
...second story is a former political prisoner and teacher who "wanted to cut myself loose and get lost in the innermost heart of Russia-if there were any such thing." He finds a village and an old woman named Matryona. Slowly sketching her life, Solzhenitsyn presents her as a symbol of ancient Russia, oppressed by czars and commissars alike, but still waiting for fulfillment. "She was considered 'odd' by her sisters," he concludes, "a laughingstock who was so stupid as to work for others without pay. She never accumulated property against the time of her death. A dirty...