Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some, it was the most shocking example yet of the virulent anti-Americanism that has surfaced during Iran's bloody revolution. To others, it was an apt symbol of American inability to influence, much less control, events in this troubled land. Last week, on the day after Ayatullah Khomeini exhorted his followers to lay down their arms, a band of 100 Iranian leftists attacked the U.S. embassy in Tehran. Barrages of machine-gun and automatic-weapons fire raked the compound. Two Marine guards were wounded and an Iranian embassy employee was killed. After two hours of skirmishing, the attackers...
Chan's Ivy League education began Nov. 29, when he approached the Harvard Crimson with an advertisement featuring his magazine's familiar symbol and an invitation to audition for the project. The next day's edition featured a news story headlined PLAYBOY SEEKS WOMEN HERE TO POSE NUDE. That evening a majority of the 30 staff members at a Crimson editorial meeting voted to reject the ad. That decision prompted some staffers, male and female, to write lengthy editorial explications and dissenting opinions. The majority endorsed the paper's editorial, declaring that Playboy "has played...
Associate Editor Frederic Golden was a journalism student at Columbia University in 1955 when he heard of Albert Einstein's death. Though relativity baffled him, Golden knew instantly that science ? and civilization ? had lost a major hero. "Einstein was the symbol of learning generation," and explains wisdom for Golden, my who wrote this week's cover story on the new wave of interest in Einstein as followers celebrate the centennial of his birth. "He is the scientist of our age, but he is also remembered for his humanity, his personal style and his political and social thinking...
...foreign capital investment and many of its consumer goods. From the north, too, come the tourists, 3.7 million of them, spending about $1 billion a year. Tourism is Mexico's biggest employer, but to many Mexicans, crowds of tourists with their cameras, sunglasses and bikinis are only another symbol of their own subservient status...
...Khomeini, who set up headquarters at a girls' school in Tehran, obviously hoped to isolate Bakhtiar and force his resignation. Until the army announced its neutrality, Bakhtiar had insisted that any transfer of power be done in accordance with the 1906 constitution, which had become something of a symbol of order to the military. The collapse of the Prime Minister's government, however, made that issue academic...