Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although integration "as a symbol of something to come has yet to be seriously considered" in South Carolina, major inroads can be made against Southern problems by "mass media," Mrs. Alford suggested. Among these, she included the race problem, a lack of education, and economic troubles...
...Army was most riled by an informal fraternity that soon sprang up at Chemical Corps, Ordnance Corps and Quartermaster Corps bases where the Army's 3,300 ESPPs were stationed. Its name: Phi Tau Alpha. Its Greek-letter symbol was scrawled on walls, carved on railings, sometimes written over salads in grated carrots. In reality, it had no meaning beyond a concise four-letter fate for the Army, easily understood when Greek letters were carried over to English equivalents (F.T.A.). But some old soldiers mistook Phi Tau Alpha for a cabal, possibly a spy organization. They put Army Criminal...
...expected anything untoward when an equally respected figure, West German President Theodor Heuss, 74, arrived to pay a call. But Heuss also happened to be the first German head of state invited to Britain on a ceremonial visit since Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1907, and he came as a symbol of the German nation. In the intervening 51 years Britons and Germans had fought each other in two world wars, and in them more than a million Britons had died...
...itself create inflation. The extent to which you put it in the banks is the extent of its inflation. This $12 billion will be financed partly by the banks, but that part will not be enough to change the direction of the country. The deficit has become an overemphasized symbol of inflation...
...insiders and the outsiders mix, mate and mangle each other. A lengthy subplot centers on the discovery and raising of the ancient abbey bell, legendarily consigned to the bottom of the lake as a result of a curse on an errant nun. The bell, of course, is a symbol for that clear-ringing innocence of which the colonists are self-deprived...