Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...each other across a table in Manhattan's "21." At national committee headquarters, staff members were calmly looking beyond the convention, planning to conduct the fall campaign with the help of Madison Avenue's Norman, Craig & Kummel, Inc., the advertising agency that made the Maidenform bra a symbol of the American Dream. Even in South Carolina, where the civil-rights issue is seething, Democratic delegates caucused, tut-tutted talk of a third party, voted to seek their objectives "within the framework" of the Democratic Party...
...focusing the servant girl's light on the proud yet suffering features of Peter. In The Bridal Couple, probably painted the year before he died at 63, Rembrandt could still return boldly to another moment of drama for every man, raise it to the level of a welling symbol of devotion, acceptance and proud communion...
...Administration's $4.9 billion foreign-aid bill. Eloquent Walter George pleaded for the compromise $4.5 billion that his Senate Foreign Relations Committee had approved−and that the Administration had agreed to accept. As he argued, with increasing emotion, that the foreign-aid program is a symbol of U.S. world leadership, the Senate ceased its rustling and rattling to listen to the kind of nonpartisan greatness it hears all too rarely. Said George...
...Chicago reactor is a concrete-shielded symbol of an economic force more far-reaching even than atomic energy. The force: research in industry. In the past 15 years a torrent of technological change has brought the U.S. greater material advances than any other nation has experienced in all history. With every breakthrough in the laboratory, industry has turned the new knowledge into new products for a society whose inventiveness has made achievement the bright converse of obsolescence...
...been working with Chicago's Puerto Ricans for three years. Ten moppets showed up at city hall to present Mayor Richard J. Daley with a baby lamb named Felicitas, after the mayoress of San Juan, Felisa Rincón de Gautier. The lamb is not only the symbol of Puerto Rico but of the Chicago church's potent and growing organization of Puerto Ricans, the Knights of St. John. Founded in 1954, the Knights now number more than 1,000 families and sponsor social and recreational activities, run a hostel for newly arrived Puerto Ricans, a legal...