Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meanwhile, Communism was still pressured by the forces of discontent at home and disunity within the satellites that had made the U.S.S.R. welcome Geneva I as a diversion and a symbol of hope amid the tyranny of life under Communism. To the extent that the spirit of Geneva has been harmed (by the Communists' hand), that hope has been struck down. The anti-Communist world prospers, economically and politically. West German prosperity is the marvel of Europe. Talk of European unity revives. The U.S., breaking production records, is in sight of balancing its federal budget. President Eisenhower...
...were noted: ¶ Facing an old and troublesome problem, he national committee worked out a face-saving compromise on the party's "loyalty oath." The meaningless new rule assumes that state Democratic organizations will place the nominees of the national convention on the state ballot under the Democratic symbol; it eliminates the old provision requiring a pledge by individual delegates. But not long after the compromise was approved, former National Chairman Stephen Mitchell, a chief adviser to Stevenson, said he would fight to keep out of the convention South Carolina's former Governor James F. Byrnes, Louisiana...
...admitted to police that they had taken him from his uncle's home. On behalf of the Mississippians who regretted the grand jury's failure to indict, the Jackson State Times concluded: "The case . . . wound up not on the solid ground of justice accomplished but . . . became a symbol of the white-hot determination of Mississippians to conduct their affairs as they pleased. The symbol was ill-chosen...
...navy, air force and army." Last week the Israeli government hotly rejected Sir Anthony Eden's proposals to work out a "compromise" peace by border adjustments. Reason: such compromise, the Israelis fear, might cost them the fast rising southern port that has become the dearest prize and symbol of 1955 Zionism...
...stories in this book, but the best of the lot is more rib-tickling than spine-tingling. The Watchful Poker Chip of H. Matisse tells of a fellow called George Garvey, so indescribably dull and ordinary that he becomes the pet of an avant-garde group, as a symbol, apparently, of what is wrong with bourgeois U.S. They take to hanging out in his respectable apartment and quoting his unquotable bromides in their modish cold-water flats. Garvey beats the avant-gardists at their own game. He loses a little finger slamming a car door and replaces the member with...