Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which have gone along with United Funds in the past, have decided to break off. Reason for the withdrawals: both organizations feel that they can raise more money through independent campaigns. In the case of the heart association, there is special reason for optimism: President Eisenhower may become a symbol for the crusade against heart disease, just as Franklin D. Roosevelt symbolized polio. Although the association has sternly forbidden any official use of the Eisenhower name, charitarians estimate that the President's heart attack will be worth at least $4,000,000 in additional revenue for the association...
During a discussion period, the minority, quite vocal all evening, said that the HCL represented a "symbol" which the University resented, and that a merger with that group would do little to enhance the NCC's reputation...
Morocco's nationalists had been happy to use him in exile as a symbol; the question now was whether they were prepared to accept him in person, or would find him too pliant and suspect him of being manipulated by the French. That unanswered question moderated their welcome...
...calls her "one of the few great actresses of the age." The critics, forgetting their normal caution, have noted her "enormous range," her "incomparable sensibility," her "genius." Her fellow actors agree. Helen Hayes has solemnly passed on to her the handkerchief that Sarah Bernhardt gave to Julia Marlowe -sure symbol of her succession as first lady of the American theater. Ethel Barrymore, after Julie's success in Member of the Wedding and I Am a Camera, concluded: "That girl can do anything...
...killed fighting with the Irish Guards in the battle of Loos. Rudyard Kipling got letters from all the world, and some exulted in the mean thought that the laureate of war had got his comeuppance. As a member of the Imperial War Graves Commission, he promoted the patriotic symbol for the age of mass wars -the Unknown Soldier. His own son's body was never found...