Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...early '50s were the golden age of the college prank. For example, two Harvard band members were arrested in October 1953 for staging an impromptu 3 a.m. concert on Yale's Old Campus. The most elaborate stunt may have been The Crimson's theft of the Lampoon's symbol, its beloved Ibis, in April 1953. The Crimson then donated the statue to the Soviet embassy in New York as a gift from the students of America to those of the USSR. The treasurer of the Lampoon called on Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy to investigate this trafficking with the enemy...
...Class Committee envisioned three main goals in establishing the Biko Fund. First, it allows individuals who otherwise would not have contributed to make a positive statement against University investment policy. Second, the existence and support of the Fund will be a symbol of discontent and concern over the current situation in South Africa. Third, the Fund will provide direct support for the undergraduate education of black and colored South Africans at Harvard...
...often been critical of the AFL-CIO for its treatment of black members, he remained totally loyal to trade unionism as a salvation for social wrongs. "We never separated the liberation of the white workingman from the liberation of the black workingman," he emphasized. Whenever a cause needed a symbol of integrity, Randolph was sure to be called-and sure to be there...
...become something of a whipping boy in the current cost-containment controversy, a symbol of the insanely soaring expenses of the U.S. medical care system. Government officials and consumers are questioning whether the benefits derived from the flood of innovative techniques of the past 20 years justify the high cost. Even physicians who traditionally have taken to the new technology with the enthusiasm of small boys trying out new toys, are voicing doubts...
...footnote stipulating that the document, in its final form, might be an agreement for approval by a simple majority of both houses instead of a treaty requiring ratification by two-thirds of the Senate. The Soviets never took the asterisk terribly seriously. To them, it was a symbol of the basic capriciousness of American democracy...