Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...budget through Congress. But many an Eisenhower Republican breathed a sigh of relief when the White House announced, well in advance of the fact, that Humphrey's successor will be former Deputy Defense Secretary Robert B. Anderson (see box), who could well become the fiscal symbol of the second Eisenhower Administration...
...June 4, 1942, and World War II in the Pacific was almost six months old. Pearl Harbor lay far behind, a symbol of heartbreaking disaster; Singapore had fallen, and so had Rangoon, and so had Corregidor. The U.S. fleet, though it had won a strategic edge, had been mauled, and the carrier Lexington sunk, in the Battle of the Coral Sea (May 4-8). Japan was threatening Australia, and her ships scouted with impunity around the Indian Ocean and Ceylon. The U.S., a long way yet from the glory days of island landings, had to latch...
...nearly brought down the government of then Premier Mario Scelba. Because of it, the chief of Italy's national police, the chief of the Roman police force and Foreign Minister Attilio Piccioni resigned. When the Communist daily L'Unita solemnly declared that the Montesi case was a symbol of the moral bankruptcy of "the entire clerico-capitalist regime," millions of Italians agreed...
After that the story's morale goes to pieces almost as fast as Barney's. The camera dotes on scenes of degradation with such lickerish delight that the rolled sleeve becomes a more important symbol of sensuality than the lifted skirt. As for the film hero's cure, it can no more be taken seriously than a tour of the haunted house in an amusement park, although Ross himself has not taken drugs for ten years. As the first of three opium operas that have been scheduled since narcotics became a suitable subject for Hollywood films (TIME...
...Have you stopped beating your wife?" is regarded as the symbol of all loaded questions asked by lawyers. But N.Y.U. Philosophy Professor Sidney Hook contends that the question "Do you now or have you ever beaten your wife?", is an eminently plain question and that anyone who invokes the Fifth Amendment rather than answer yes or no may be fairly suspected by his neighbors of having in fact cuffed the little woman around...