Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...actresses employed in this film. Bette Davis, who played the slightly sodden and sinking grade dame, retired shortly after she finished the picture. But a young girl who made her first movie appearance in All About Eve has since then become a sort of national symbol. Her name is Marilyn Monroe...
...nursing their first litters in the orchard lot. To the hog troughs he took the shortest route, leading through the family cemetery behind the house. As the wire gate clicked shut behind him, Joe passed by the chest-high tombstone of his great-grandfather, Samuel Sampson Carver (1847-1938), symbol of a farm era that, although gone, still presses its influence on Joe Moore and all his contemporaries...
When I speak of substituting good government for poor government, I do not mean electing one individual, one symbol, one person to typify the might and majesty of America-by no means. I mean to elect a team, to send to Washington the pick of our men and women chosen according to merit...
...midweek, De Latour had worked out a compromise with the leaders of the Présence Française: Ben Moulay Arafa would leave, but turn over the royal seal, symbol of the Sultan's authority, not to the Regency Council but to a member of his own family. The old Sultan seemed ready to agree, but then balked. His chief adviser, Vizier Si Hadj Abder Raman el Hajou, had talked him into refusing any compromise at all. De Latour acted. At 4 one morning, police arrived at El Hajou's apartment in downtown...
...chanted the voters, "no cheating." Sharp at 8 a.m., the official called the name of the first voter, a wizened, crippled man of 95. He limped to the palm-leaf voting booth, spread the ballot over a sandbag, hesitated for several minutes, then carefully punched a nail through the symbol of his chosen party...