Word: symbolized
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...also, as Sheehan eventually learned, a shameless hypocrite with a "secret vice" he could not or would not control. To Sheehan, who worked as a young wire-service reporter in Viet Nam and went on to obtain the Pentagon papers for the New York Times, Vann is the very symbol of the U.S. in Viet Nam: a courageous do-gooder masking a dark streak of amorality. Vann's story, as told by Sheehan after 16 years of painstaking reporting, is not just a biography but a sweeping history of a war that, Sheehan argues, the U.S. could never have...
...Niagara Falls neighborhood of Love Canal has been a symbol of toxic- pollution nightmares. Now New York State officials hope it will come to represent a new kind of urban renewal. Last week state health commissioner Dr. David Axelrod announced that about two-thirds of the area where more than 21,000 tons of chemical wastes were buried in the 1940s and 1950s would be habitable again after a multimillion-dollar cleanup is completed next year...
...about it. Florence Griffith Joyner is the First Lady of track and field. By winning three gold medals and one silver, Flo-Jo surpassed the 28- year-old record of Wilma Rudolph and nearly equaled the four golds of Holland's Fanny Blankers-Koen 40 years ago. The sex symbol of sprinting made her most dramatic strides into the record books with a stunning 200-meter race. In her first heat, she set a new Olympic record. Next day, in the semi- final, she set a new world record of 21.56; less than two hours later, she obliterated...
...beat about the bush, a rally organizer conceded that the Quayle-potato analogy was somewhat unusual. But he said organization members found it an effective symbol of Quayle's unique blend of tough stances on issues and personal warmth...
During Gemayel's tumultuous tenure, the presidency has been reduced to little more than a symbol of Lebanese sovereignty. Nonetheless, most Lebanese would rather preserve the symbol than suffer a relapse into violence and anarchy. As tension mounted last week, gunmen once again fired mortars and machine guns across the "green line" separating Christian and Muslim Beirut. Renewed fighting between the rival Shi'ite Muslim organizations -- Amal, supported by Syria, and the Islamic fundamentalist Hizballah, backed by Iran -- is also a prospect. Last week three Amal militia commanders were killed in an ambush south of Beirut, presumably by Hizballah gunmen...