Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thanks for a good article, [but] TIME forgot a great symbol of progress in Dixie. Remember the politicians who used to rave: "D'ye want your daughter to marry a Negro? Then vote for ole Buzz Drippo for the U.S. Senate." Where is Buzz Drippo today? He's joined the dinosaurs in the museums...
...Bulldozer. Indiana's Capehart had been a symbol for decontrol for nearly two years. His Capehart amendment (permitting price hikes to cover all cost increases from the beginning of the Korean war to July 26, 1951) shot price ceilings full of holes and aroused the wrath of the Truman Administration. Harry Truman said it was "like a bulldozer, crashing aimlessly through existing price formulas, leaving havoc in its wake." Little wonder, then, that Capitol Hill was startled this year when Bulldozer Capehart proposed that Congress give the President power to freeze wages, prices and rents for 90 days...
...stone becomes a beak, a sharp shelf of rock becomes a wing jutting from a rounded body. Says O'Hanlon: "It's not that I'm crazy about birds particularly-I'm interested in all nature. I've just chosen the bird as a symbol. I'm really concerned with form, and birds offer wonderful plastic possibilities." Brought up in a remote part of the Sierra Madre foothills, O'Hanlon could hardly help being interested in nature...
...bewildered. On his face was the look of utter confusion that imprisoned men often wear when first confronted with the outside world again. Newsman Oatis had been cut off so completely that he did not know Eisenhower was President, that Stalin was dead, that he himself had become a symbol for the free press of the West. When one reporter greeted him with the words, "You're famous now, Bill," Oatis only replied in a puzzled voice...
...soon showed that he could act with the decision of his grandfather. One of his first acts was to fire Harry Bennett, who was virtually running the company, and who was a symbol of union-busting to the U.A.W.-C.I.O. After that, there was no question of who was the new boss of the empire...