Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sale into financing what is supposed to be the world's tallest (400 ft.) floating fountain. Its 41 jets will spout 15,800 gal. of Ohio River water every minute in a 20-minute computer-controlled cycle of designs, culminating in the fleur- de-lis, Louisville's official symbol. Tens of thousands gathered Friday night to watch the fountain's spectacular debut. Bingham was not among them. He died four days earlier...
...movie Stand and Deliver has turned James A. Garfield High School in East Los Angeles into a worldwide symbol of educational hope. Its barrio-bound Hispanic students were inspired by Teacher Jaime Escalante to achieve startlingly high scores in that difficult subject calculus. But now the scores are falling. Only 46% of participating Garfield students passed a rigorous College Board math exam this year...
...illness triggered fresh demands from around the world for his release. Botha knows if Mandela dies an imprisoned martyr, widespread violence is likely. On the other hand, his release might be greeted by an uncontrollable uprising of millions of black South Africans for whom he is the leading symbol of resistance to the apartheid system. Last week Botha renewed his long-standing offer to free Mandela if he would publicly renounce the use of violence for political ends -- a bargain Mandela has repeatedly refused on the grounds that prisoners cannot make deals...
...first put in nomination at a Republican Convention. Richard Nixon won top billing that year, but it was the favorite-son Governor of California who would prove to be the party's most enduring inspiration. First in graceful defeat, then in glorious triumph, and finally as a reassuring symbol of the presidency itself, Reagan became the conservative constant through two decades of Republican resurgence. This Monday in New Orleans, the era's most successful Republican politician will take the podium to thunderous applause and, as part of his final bow, urge Americans to continue his legacy by supporting George Herbert...
...immigrants from Iran had eagerly awaited Reza's birth in June 1974 as the symbol of their new life in the U.S. Houshang Garakani of Englewood Cliffs, N.J., a psychiatrist, had just launched his private practice in Manhattan. His wife Sadri had won entry into a master's program in educational psychology at New York University, an initial step on the path that would lead to her becoming president of the Englewood Cliffs board of education...