Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WESTWOOD, Mass.--Andrei Sakharov, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning physicist who became a symbol of Soviet dissidence, died yesterday, his relatives reported...
...This is a beautiful symbol of the growing cooperation between what can no longer be called the two [military] blocks but let's say East and West," said Belgian Foreign Minister Mark Eyskens, whose government was instrumental in arranging the visit...
That plan seems to pave the way for opposition leader Vaclav Havel, a jailed playwright and symbol of Czechoslovakia's peaceful revolution, and dash the hopes of Alexander Dubcek, the 68-year-old Slovak who led the "Prague Spring" reforms...
After observing Bok for four years, I see him as a symbol of the narrow-minded bureaucracy that pervades Harvard. His public persona is a smokescreen, given to dazzling us with occasional appearances on a one-to-one level but eschewing any systematic contact with undergraduates...
...painting in the White House, upstairs in the little office. It pictures Lincoln with two generals and an admiral meeting on a boat near the end of a war that pitted brother against brother. Outside the battle rages. And yet what we see in the distance is a rainbow, symbol of hope, of the passing storm. The painting's name? The Peacemakers...