Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Vietnam became a symbol for us, proof that socialism could work, that people could master their own destiny. The Vietnamese revolutionaries seemed courageous and cooperative, almost superhuman. Socialist men and women stood in the rice field and the high plateaus, calmly firing rifles skyward as American divebombers screamed down to engulf them in flaming destruction. Vietnam showed us that might can never subdue justice, that a people striving together to be free cannot be stopped short of genocide...
...stomped, wailed, moaned, sweated her way through Love Is Like a Ball and Chain at the Monterey pop festival in June 1967 until her death three years later from an overdose of heroin, Janis Joplin was the high priestess of rock, the only female star to become a sex symbol on the order of Mick Jagger or Jim Morrison...
...decided to teach the owners a lesson in management. On June 12 they seized the factory. A week later they began turning out watches from materials already stockpiled. Partly because they were offered at wholesale prices, 40% below retail, the watches enjoyed bargain-basement popularity, and became a fashionable symbol of leftist protest...
...White House gates. His energy was devoted to identifying enemies and destroying them, leaking squalid accusations and encouraging dirty political tricks, violating Richard Nixon's public entreaties to turn back to "the spirit of '76." What an appalling picture of a place that once was a symbol of much of the best...
...same time, the Reserve Mining Co. is dumping thousands of tons of taconite tailings into Lake Superior every day, polluting the once limpid waters. Contentment can sometimes amount to middle-class complacency. Once, in its years in the cultural wilderness, Sauk Centre, Minn., was Sinclair Lewis' Main Street, his symbol for a kind of porcine American self-satisfaction: "The contentment of the quiet dead . . . dullness made...