Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...noon one day last week, Rachele Mussolini stood in the family cemetery at Predappio while the body of her husband Benito Mussolini, hidden for years in a Capuchin monastery by a government conscious of its value as a symbol to neoFascists, was formally identified, then placed under a tricolor to await burial. Next day during three Masses, some 500 shouting, banner-waving Fascists broke a pledge against demonstrations, milled about the chapel, and while Rachele stood motionless, gave the blackshirt salute and knelt before the coffin. Later, Italy's old-time Duce was buried beside his blacksmith father...
Deep in the heart of every good German is an abiding conviction that as a succulent symbol of wellbeing, there is nothing to equal the sausage. Some Frenchmen maintain that when Germans cannot sleep, they count sausages rather than sheep. In West Germany last week, as 81-year-old Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and his Christian Democrats carried their election campaign into industrial Essen, Adenauer had the sausages on his side. Wily Campaigner Adenauer talked of sausages, and brought his audience rising with cheers to their feet when he told them just how much more fat sausage they eat in free...
...great-grandson, the first Duke of Devonshire, won political power for the family by leading the Revolution of 1688 against the last of the Stuarts. On the ancestral Derbyshire lands the duke reared a vast palace that stands today in its 50,000-acre wooded park as a proud symbol of the centuries of the Whig ascendancy. Successive dukes festooned Chatsworth's 273 rooms with Michelangelos, Raphaels and Rembrandts. classic sculptures and ancient books. To Chatsworth. where earlier Cavendishes had kept Mary Queen of Scots prisoner, came Burke, Fox and other generations of Whig and Liberal leaders of empire...
...Cleaning the garden, growing vegetables and heating the bath-they are all my jobs. I hand my pay envelope to my wife without opening it. She drinks and smokes, but I do neither. I feel that I am a symbol of the principle of the equality of the sexes...
Walter Hollerer, professor and literary magazine editor from Germany, told an International Seminar Forum audience last night that "East Berlin students regard the United States as a symbol of free life...