Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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King's accomplishment came only with the inadvertent help of Birmingham whites, particularly that of Public Safety Commissioner Eugene ("Bull") Connor, who during the Birmingham crisis became an international symbol of blind, cruel Southern racism. When King sent out his marchers, Connor had them mowed down by streams from fire hoses. Shocking news photos splashed across the pages of the world's press-of a young Negro sent sprawling by a jet of water, of a Negro woman pinioned to the sidewalk with a cop's knee at her throat, of police dogs lunging at fleeing Negroes...
Like a Champ. The resounding figures reflected the Georgia jury's opinion of the casual journalism of the Saturday Evening Post, which had accused the former Georgia football coach of trying to fix a Georgia-Alabama game. "Butts was just a symbol," said a juror later. The jury had settled on $3,000,000 in punitive damages, he said, as the proper way to implement the judge's charge to "deter the wrongdoer from repeating trespass." As for the $60,000 general damages, that was simply the jury's calculation of Butts's future earning capacity...
...choirboys marching up a tropical beach chanting "Kyrie eleison" in four-four time is properly bizarre; the initial attempts of the castaways to preserve decency and order ("After all, we're English, and the English are not savages") are ironic and touching. A leader, Ralph, is elected, his symbol of authority a white conch shell; Jack, the head boy of the choir, reorganizes his singers as a pack of hunters. With the sun and eyeglasses belonging to the fat and asthmatic Piggy, a signal fire is lit, in the hope of attracting rescue. Then the idyl-and the movie...
...generation of Americans, "Body by Fisher" was an advertising slogan that became a symbol of automobile quality and a phrase so pervasive in the language that The American Thesaurus of Slang even lists it as one definition of "a well-formed young woman." All General Motors cars - some 70 million of them, from Chevrolets to Cadillacs (as well as some cars no longer around, such as La Salle and Oakland) - have long borne a little metal plate with the proud phrase on it. The seven stocky brothers who made their name a Detroit legend have faded from most memories; three...
Four maples symbol of boys' playing in the maples...