Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...occurred with remarkable frequency and in varying forms. I shall point up a number of others later on, as they appeared in his sworn testimony, his autobiography, and other documentary sources. Chambers' special manipulation of dates, names and other symbols included among its features a magical symbol of numerical alternates. From an examination into this area it became evident that Chambers either invented or exchanged real and imagined events. Most striking was the discovery of his manipulation of birth and death dates. For example, by substituting a birth date for a death date (or vice versa) he restored to life...
...Russia and Lyndon Johnson was in the fourth grade. He went on to win the world's admiration with his grave defiance of Mussolini's legions in the '30s (he was TIME'S Man of the Year in 1936), and has remained a durable symbol of courage ever since...
...guarded, fittingly enough, by a superintendent in a three-piece suit with a gold watch fob. Within this protective and comfortable setting, Finley has become a self-conscious anachronism who, though he may sound like a broken gramaphone at times, serves an important and colorful function as a symbol of Harvard past. He enjoys the role. "I sometimes see myself as a tree under which the arcadia of Harvard life takes place. When you reach a certain stage in life, you are cast in the role of a perpetuator. I try to perpetuate the institution and do what...
...lower house of Parliament and for seats in the 17 state legislatures. Despite India's widespread poverty, the candidates will spend $100 million on electioneering. Because three-quarters of India's electorate is illiterate, voters will show their preference by stamping an X above a symbol representing their favorite of nine parties: a yoked pair of bullocks for the Congress Party, a star for the free-enterprising Swatantra Party...
...Federal Government has carried out only one execution in ten years, now has only one pending (Nebraska Bank Robber-Murderer Duane E. Pope). Says Michigan's Senator Philip A. Hart, sponsor of a bill to abolish capital punishment for federal crimes: "The death penalty is a symbol of a dying order of vengeance...