Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...housewife in St. Paul for her Swiss chocolates. Prices of domestic goods go up because the competing imports are more expensive; the dollar's decline will add as much as 1.5% to the inflation rate this year. More important, a nation's currency is the symbol of its economic vitality and the instrument by which it exercises its world role. The fall of the once-mighty British pound from $4.03 to a low of $1.55 was both a contributor to and a measure of Britain's postwar decline. When Charles de Gaulle returned to power...
...assassins. Next day, Ippolito Bestonso, 66, an Alfa Romeo executive, was "kneecapped" outside his home in Milan by three youths who fired six bullets into his legs. In no hurry to flee, they followed up the shooting by handcuffing their victim and hanging a poster bearing the red star symbol of the Red Brigades around his neck...
Unfortunately, more and more female undergraduates find Radcliffe does nothing for them but serve as a symbol; Radcliffe gives them a vague sense of community with other undergraduate women. Radcliffe needs to take a stronger role in University life or face the end of its independent existence...
...kindly, gentle manner. A revered scholar, he spends most of his days sitting on the floor of his bone-bare home in Qum, discussing the subtleties of Islamic thought with theological students who come to him from all over the Muslim world. His name is less a symbol of political resistance than that of Ayatullah Khomeini, 80, who has been in exile since 1963 and now lives in Iraq. But among those mullahs still inside Iran, Sharietmadari is the acknowledged leader of his nation's conservative forces, and the man who personifies the greatest challenge that the Shah...
...been disillusioned with CENTO. Henry Kissinger used to regard his yearly visits to CENTO ministerial meetings as little more than nuisances of protocol, redeemed only by the opportunity to discuss Cyprus with the Turks. An American diplomat stationed in the region dismisses the alliance as "little more than a symbol, and not a very shining one at that." His colleagues joke grimly that the telecommunication system linking Ankara, Tehran and Rawalpindi, installed by the U.S. in 1964, is so often out of order that phone calls are frequently routed from Tehran to Pakistan via New York...