Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...later addition; no one knows whether the figure actually carried a staff, an offering, or a weapon. The pack on the back resembles the wings and tail of a great bird, and the pointed beard can be taken for a beak. The girdle is an ancient Middle Eastern symbol of power, worn by lion-strangling heroes in the bloody days of Assurnasirpal. The powerfully striding thighs are molded with an easy naturalism virtually unknown until the time of the Greeks, yet the cylindrical form and spellbound air of the entire figure are pre-Grecian. The boots are even odder than...
Except for a few years prior of 1930 when black and white saddle-shoes were the fad, Princeton undergraduates have attempted to immortalize the white buck, Since 1918, it has become a symbol of the average Princeton student, the Princetonian said...
Strator, who had successfully interested and trained several friends, then fell across Dick Corbeil, who has already won his "brown bolt"--symbol of second-highest achievement in judo. Last spring and fall, Corbeil, Strater, and a half-dozen friends worked out in the I.A.B., and this year, they have University permission to do so officially...
...regime's top leadership well knew that who controlled the policy controlled their necks. It was necessary to their common survival to disperse the State Security apparatus, and to make common cause against anyone out front, i.e., Malenkov, to keep him from getting this last key symbol of power. In April 1954, after Beria's downfall, the Security Services were detached from the Ministry of the Interior and placed under a Committee for State Security. Committee Chairman Ivan Alexandrovich...
...moth-eaten symbol of East-West friendship broke briefly into the news last week as President Eisenhower recalled the bear-skin rug given him in the last days of the war by Soviet Marshal Georgi Zhukov. The knowledge that Zhukov, the newly named Defense Minister, is a thoroughly professional soldier with the professional's innate caution, was probably the only encouraging aspect of the newest revolution of Moscow's inner circle...