Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...amounts of money involved. Compared with the abuses of power already documented in the Watergate affair, for example, the allegation that Rebozo spent $4,562.38 in leftover campaign funds for earrings for Pat Nixon would not ordinarily have been of much consequence. But it was perceived as a vivid symbol, calling immediately to mind a much younger Richard Nixon who bragged on television that his wife wore only a "respectable Republican cloth coat." Strategically, the allegation was also important to investigators because it helped them trace the means by which much of Nixon's campaign funds had apparently been...
...more perfect indictment of such leadership than the fatuously self-confident direction by the Lords Raglan and Cardigan of the charge of the Light Brigade. The event must be seen in retrospect not just as a piece of heroic military stupidity (worse ones have occurred since), but as a symbol of what happens to a trained elite that is closed to new blood and new ideas...
...three decades and was South America's most famous contemporary figure. His erratic career took him from obscurity to the peak of power, to exile and then to one of this century's most remarkable political comebacks. Through it all, Juan Domingo Perón remained his country's symbol of national unity. He was el Líder, the caudillo who held out the perennial promise that the feuding privileged and underprivileged of Argentina would one day coalesce and turn their richly endowed country into the leading nation of South America. When he died last week that promise remained unfulfilled...
...designed trade logos, exhibitions and lobbies for such clients as Pan American World Airways, Mobil Oil, the Chase Manhattan Bank. Born in London, he lived in Canada, graduated from Yale, is now a partner in design firms in New York and Cambridge, Mass. Recently he conceived the symbol and identity program for the American Revolution Bicentennial Commission...
...Israel last week completed the separation of forces specified by their cease-fire agreement. Syria recovered not only all the territory it lost in the October fighting, but also Quneitra, the Golan Heights provincial capital that Israel has held since '67. The recovery of the ruined city-a symbol of Damascus' determination to win back all the land it lost to Israel in the Six-Day War-touched off a day of emotional national celebration. TIME Correspondent Karsten Prager accompanied the exuberant Syrians into Quneitra and cabled this account...