Word: symbolization
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During the last half of the 20th Century every family wanted to have a car, and most bought one. In many cases they got two or three. The automobile was a status symbol, and a symbol of freedom, that was more than matched by its utility...
...symbol and a warning of how this year is going to be.' GERARDO PRIEGO TAPIA, Mexican Congressman, after masked gunmen attacked the country's top television station for reporting on local drug traffickers...
...only thing that is certain is that every symbol of Hamas' rule in Gaza, every government building, police station and office block, has been replaced by a very large hole. It will take years for Hamas to rebuild Gaza's infrastructure and to offer basic services to the war-dazed 1.5 million Palestinians inside the sealed-off territory...
...weekend-long Ku Klux Klan initiation ceremony, coming just days after Barack Obama's victory. She had applied to join online and traveled hundred of miles to attend the ceremony. Her death has left this region shocked, fearful of resurgent white supremacist groups, and dreading becoming a symbol of racial hatred in America...
Though she didn't have a great sense of whom the governor of New York would name to fill Hillary Clinton's Senate seat, when I asked her about baseball, she didn't hesitate to answer, "I don't get a great energy around the Yankees. I see this symbol, and it's a no energy." When I screamed, "Oh, crap!" I thought Kenzer might have tuned into my spirit and sensed disappointment. But she kept going: "I get a better energy for the Red Sox--like, a really good energy around the Red Sox for this year." I think...