Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gambler. Almost unknown to the general public a year ago, Mendès-France has become a living symbol of change, in a country that longs for change. Previous Premiers had one goal that was more important than all others: to stay in office. A "successful" Premier was the one who managed to stay longest, and however patriotic he might be, he had to shape all his actions towards continuity in office. Generally, this meant that it was safer to do nothing. Thus, a Premier formed his majority first by telling the Catholic M.R.P. that he was for EDC, then...
...bubble when a thief is in the garden, carved wooden bowls from which to feed the gods, wanga bags to protect the traveler, love charms, colored beads, mysterious, headless dolls. Granny Holdeman was having another "burning." Granny's ceremonial burning of voodoo charms and fetishes is a potent symbol in a land where dark gods and hungry spirits sometimes seem more at home than the people themselves. Some eight years ago, when she went to Haiti, the drums throbbed often in the hills. If there are some who pay little attention to them now, 66-year-old Granny Holdeman...
...recent years. Their leader, emerging from almost total obscurity, was Carlos Castillo Armas, 40, sometime colonel in the Guatemalan army, who had been jailed in Guatemala City in 1950 after an attempted revolt, but tunneled spectacularly out of prison and fled. Living in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, he made himself a symbol of the exiled right-wing opposition to Guatemala's Communists. He also began quietly collecting arms, money...
...hoped the Class of '54 would count among its prized memories the memory of Memorial Church. Pusey admitted that it had taken him several years after his graduation to recognize Memorial Church's importance, and did not think many of this year's graduates would make it their "symbol of Harvard" either. But, he added, he earnestly hoped "it might...
...suggest to Mr. Jenkins that he use the boar as his symbol in his coming bout with Senator Kefauver, who uses a coon...