Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...still tangled web woven by the Fields, one thread lay clear as a trail of blood on snow. In their five years in Communist hands, the Communists had used the American name of Field in trial after trial, until it became a symbol of death...
...Palace of the Republic this week, and told him he was through. Once he had been President, Premier, chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council, and benevolent front man for the young officers who kicked out King Farouk and made Egypt a republic. His was the reassuring, pipe-smoking symbol of a new order in an ancient, long-misgoverned land...
...poems in the issue, Alan R. Grossman's "The Sands of Paran" employs Old Testament imagery to describe the plight of a modern world which is the "I" in this poem. The solemn cadence of the meter lends to Grossman's piece a suitable gravity. In "Two Symbols of Reality," Peter Junger uses a sexton as the symbol of death's irony: "Proudly he seeds the rotting earth and plucks sweet fruits out of the mourner's dearth," And his priest who takes "all sins upon his head" seems to be the symbol of human compassion. As a whole...
...make sure that higher temperature is killing the birches, Dr. Pomerleau told how researchers in New Brunswick warmed the roots of trees with electricity. They died faster than ever. There is evidence that spruce and balsam, and even the proud maples that are the symbol of Canada, may die as the climate changes...
...then the rainmaker appears; and after him, indeed, the deluge. As a symbol-as a transformer of lives and a spokesman for faith rather than mere facts-he seems out of the dead past of playwriting. As a romantic swashbuckler, given to fancy rainmaking and fancier lovemaking, he lacks lure: his philosophizings are an intrusion and his love scenes somehow an offense. He may save the crops but he decidedly mars the play...