Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mass of words. It would be a concrete gesture for an abandoning of bombtesting and possibly for a distinct turn towards developing the atom for peace, and would raise the United States in the estimation of those countries who view her as something considerably less than a world-peace symbol...
...North Africa, the soldier with iron in his soul showed something of the gee-whiz of Abilene. "I have operational command of Gibraltar," he wrote, "the symbol of the solidity of the British Empire-the hallmark of safety and security at home ... I simply must have a grandchild or I'll never have the fun of telling this when I'm fishing, grey-bearded, on the bank of a quiet bayou in the deep south...
...blindly enough anti-Western to break off Jordan's alliance with Britain in favor of a tie with Egypt-a course advocated by veteran Amman Politico Suleiman Nabulsi, who many Jordanians believe will be their next Premier. Says Nabulsi: "We have no reservations about Nasser. He is the symbol of the Arab awakening...
Last week Franz Josef Strauss. 41. no Nazi but a veteran of Bavarian beer-hall politics in his own right, became West Germany's new Minister of Defense. He got his job from old Konrad Adenauer-but he is a symbol of the kind of Germany that will replace Adenauer's Germany. He is also a symbol of the kind of military thinking that Konrad Adenauer once stood resolutely against...
...long effort to conquer space has brought Braque in his final years to his recent Studio VIII, which incorporates the whole range of past paintings, studio props and objects. His new central symbol is an anonymous bird. It is, like all Braque's subjects, the visual image of his outstanding qualities-taste and purity. "In the old days," Braque explains, "I used guitars, tables, carafes, sand and wallpaper to express what I had to say. Now it is the bird which helps me to explain myself." With a smile he adds, "I started on the ground...