Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...transcripts." Added Representative John Brademas of Indiana: "There was an extraordinary moral obtuseness on the part of these people. It seems to me? subject to the work of ?the Judiciary Committee?that there is a clear possibility of criminality by the President. The hush money is the symbol...
...course, is that the Golan Heights overlook vast reaches of northern Israeli territory. In the past, Syrian gunners have periodically raked Israeli kibbutzim with artillery stationed on the strategic heights. For that reason, Israel has established new settlements on the Golan -one more was dedicated last week-as a symbol of its determination to continue to occupy the territory...
...early American suffragettes, Lucy Stone, refused to adopt her husband's name when she got married to Henry Blackwell in 1855, arguing that "my name is the symbol of my identity." Her name also became a rallying cry for other women who chose to keep their maiden names, though relatively few have done so until the past few years. Today growing numbers of married women are following in Lucy Stone's footsteps. Explains Pat Montandon, a San Francisco writer and former television moderator: "What is important about your own name is the psychology of being yourself instead...
Gaullist Mantle. Chaban's major campaign tactic has been to wrap himself in the Gaullist mantle. In the halls in which he speaks, his photo is flanked by those of Charles de Gaulle and Georges Pompidou. As the symbol that will appear beside his name on the ballot, he has chosen De Gaulle's emblem, the cross of Lorraine-a reminder of Chaban's key role during the Resistance. After attending a Chaban rally outside Paris, TIME Correspondent George Taber noted: "Over the auditorium hung an aura of nostalgia and past triumphs. The audience was made...
...sundering of the social fabric of Western civilization. Stoppard is concerned with the moral fabric, the abyss of nonbelief. He sees man, devoid of metaphysical absolutes, as rending his fellow man and reducing the planet to a desolate, lifeless cipher rather like the moon, which is a key symbol in Jumpers...