Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British see spreading in America ... is an emotional reaction to a symbol instead of a realistic consideration of a set of circumstances . . . What we fear is not Senator McCarthy-every community has its share of cranks and one-track minds -but his acceptance by so many of your people...
...village of Deir Yassin replied to the terrorists with gunfire; a battle began. Up to then, the Palestine fighting had been marked by sporadic cruelty on both sides; thereafter Deir Yassin became a symbol of surpassing horror...
...sent to Nanyuki, Kenya. Like any other P.W., he hated internment: the demoralizing idleness, the inability to be alone. But his camp was overshadowed by 17,000-ft. Mount Kenya, "a massive, blue-black tooth of sheer rock." To some of the prisoners it became a symbol of freedom...
...Marquette's cargo-wines, liquors, marble, foodstuffs and cork from France, Italy, Spain and Portugal-was a symbol of the flourishing postwar trade between Europe and Great Lakes ports. Shippers estimate that the all-water route is 10% to 20% less costly than rail-water transshipment from Europe via New York City. There are now 44 ships in the service, all shallow enough in draft to navigate the St. Lawrence River canals (maximum depth: 14 ft.) and short enough to get through the smallest lock...
...order 30 of Benz's famous racers to enter in the Nice road race "if you'll name them for my daughter Mercedes." Consul Jellinek got his cars (they won the first 30 places in the race) and his daughter Mercedes' name became a world-famous symbol of automotive quality and speed...