Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feet; in a desert cabaret he arranges to have the backside of France's most famous woman hunter publicly whaled. By this time Morel has allies. Somehow his gesture toward saving the elephants has attracted the world's attention. Like Albert Schweitzer, Morel has become a symbol for those discontented with the quality of modern existence. His allies, in the nature of things, are an odd lot. His personal Maquis, or tusk force, consists of a refugee girl, victim of multiple rape in the liberation of Berlin, a Danish naturalist, a U.S. magazine photographer, and a nuclear scientist...
...wandering outside the temple precincts, she found the answer-a human lover in the guise of a one-armed soldier. But the god tolerated no mortal rival. Her lover died in a mysterious accident, and a temple goat, sacred symbol of the god himself, ravished her during one of her ecstasies. Pregnant, she was stoned out of the temple, to bear her child on a mountainside, midwifed only by sympathetic goats. The years did not answer her agonizing question: How was her gentle idiot son begotten-by the one-armed soldier or in that capric caprice...
...source explained that "eight is nothing more than two cubed. Two is the most fundamental of all numbers, while three is quite obviously a symbol. We know all about those symbols," he added with a smile, "and who would think up something like that if it wasn't one of those Harvard kids...
...British islands in the Lesser and Greater Antilles, now nearing the end of an evolution into a federation that will make them the hemisphere's 23rd nation, last week got a Governor General-the first symbol of their unity. In the rambling Legislative Council Chamber in Trinidad, the federation's capital, Britain's Lord Hailes, 56. took his oath of office before Trinidad's Chief Justice...
...papers by the state police, stymied in their hunt for a masked man who shot Cohen at the door of his home during an attempted holdup. The prize money was posted by the authorities. Entrants were assured of anonymity and told to mark their forms with an identifying symbol so they could claim the prize if they...