Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soviet Union, even during the outrages of the Stalinist period, show a tragic blindness to the true nature of the Soviet system, and perhaps a real lack of political sophistication. But to use this element in his career to condemn either Robeson the man, or Robeson the symbol, is misleading and wrong. Robeson the man was defined by boundless compassion: for war refugees, for his oppressed black brothers, and in a real sense, for all who suffered in an uncaring world. And Robeson the symbol represented, not the Communist Party or the Soviet Union, but resistance to oppression and struggle...
...Assembly, and everything he needed he seems to have made for himself. His great grand-nephew, Harrison, has an account book with records of all his financial transaction, so he knows more about Hiram's skills and vocations than about his thoughts, but Salisbury's pioneer ancestor remains a symbol for him of a pure, uncorrupt American optimism...
...give you this ring as a symbol...
...Bombay for an off-the-record session with some of India's leading journalists and attended a presidential review of the ships of the Indian fleet. Last week he turned up in Bangalore, where he was greeted by crowds and hailed by local officials as a "symbol of youth and hope." He urged members of the party's youth branch to limit their families to two children, to educate at least one illiterate person and to plant one tree every year. Avoid identification with the political left or right, declared Sanjay, and follow the credo of Mahatma Gandhi...
...scene outside Lockheed Aircraft Corp.'s assembly plant in Palmdale, Calif., symbolizes the condition of the $4.7 billion U.S. commercial aircraft industry today. There, glinting in the desert sun, stand five immense L-1011 TriStar jetliners, each worth $23 million. At first glance, they seem ready for delivery. The lettering on two of them spells out the name of Court Line, a British charter airline. The other three wear the bright symbol of Pacific Southwest Airlines' "grinning birds"-a broad smile painted under their striped cockpits. But Court went bankrupt in 1974, and PSA's business...