Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bluntly demanding votes and firing flamboyant rhetoric in all directions. Samples: "The oil companies have been fixing prices for so long, they don't know it's illegal. Government is the No. 1 consumer fraud. I was on to Nixon in '48-he's the symbol of evil to me." If elected to the Senate, Denenberg promised, he would "shake the hell out of that cozy club...
...defeat. Down Broad and Chestnut streets wound the motorcade last week while some 2 million zealots, nearly half the population of metropolitan Philadelphia, screamed with delight, threw confetti and fought with sweating cops to get close to their heroes. The Philadelphia Flyers had just won the Stanley Cup, symbol of supremacy in pro hockey, by destroying the Boston Bruins with un-Quakerlike ferocity, and the city had spontaneously taken Monday off to celebrate...
...their come-from-behind win, to drink a few beers, to swap locker room jokes. The high school heroes, grown men now, still refer to their host as "Coach" with the kind of nameless deference that is usually reserved for a parent. They look at him as the symbol of old times, as an exemplar of moral and physical strength...
...youth organization in 1931, and was forced to leave Germany after Hitler came to power. He first came to world attention as mayor of West Berlin between 1957 and 1966. During the recurring Berlin crises, including East Germany's erection of the Wall in 1961, Brandt was the symbol of his city's determination to remain free...
...Douglas' minister father died after having moved the family to a tiny wilderness parish in the state of Washington. At the graveside, the grieving five-year-old lad felt drawn to the towering Mount Adams-"a friend, a force for me to tie to, a symbol of stability and strength." Afflicted with puny legs as a result of polio, he resolutely hiked and climbed until he had built up his limbs-and a lifelong commitment to the environment. His first teen-age encounter with the law made a lasting impression too; Orville (as he was then unhappily known...