Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suicide referred not so much to immediate military threat as to the historical war-breeding potential among West Europeans themselves. The EDC plan was drawn up by the French, the Germans and other Western Europeans, and not by the U.S., Dulles went on. It has become a significant symbol of "whether there was to be a sincere, rational attempt to put France and Germany together again" and thereby end the hostility which had "threatened Western civilization for the last 200 years." The Russians were trying to divide the Western allies; the rest of the world would now watch, and judge...
...Marine divisions already abroad, the proposed reductions will demand a careful reallocation of forces. Troops will be brought home to defend the continental United States, with the hope that European armies will be able to fill in the gaps. The uniformed GI with his rifle has been the symbol of security for Western Europe. His loss as a psychological support cannot be easily made...
...which he had conducted himself after his capture by North Korean Communists. Dean's fellow countrymen understood that the totalitarians fight for men's minds and use lies and torture to make prisoners cooperate with them. Dean became a new kind of hero, a symbol of the hundreds of Americans who, under fiendish pressure, had remained loyal to their country...
...meet this danger, the Indian army put a 190-man mission into Nepal, and built the first military road from India to Katmandu. The first dusty Indian jeep sped along this road last week, a symbol of India's belated concern for her great mountain frontier...
...Symbol of new Brown unity, the low slung "Refectory" serves 3000 meals to faculty and students at lunch and dinner. The reverse of Harvard, where freshman life in the yard, Brown relegates the newcomers to scattered dormitories 100 years old. From there, they all trudge daily to the "Refree." While once the fraternity boys isolated themselves in their own "off-campus" dining room, today they rub elbows with the commuter and independent--if just at meals. Living in houses distinguished only by the greek-lettering over the doorways, the chapter man's one concession from the university is the questionable...