Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years Britain's Barclays Bank has been a pillar of South Africa's financial community. And for the nearly 2 million South Africans of British descent, the bank's eagle logo has been a symbol of their country's few remaining links to the land of their ancestors...
...symbol of the peasants' martyrdom was provided by a Christian Science Monitor correspondent who visited the Ukraine in 1933. On the road he noticed that an icon, hung in the traditional way at the entrance of a village, had been disfigured. The face of Christ had been obliterated; only the crown of thorns remained. The image may stand for all the innocents who perished on the Soviet land. Now, 50 years after they were effaced from memory, Conquest has succeeded in restoring their human faces...
...mummy currently stands in the Ether Dome atMGH as a symbol of Egyptian medicine. From thatlocation, he has witnessed many medicalmilestones, including the first publicdemonstration of anaesthesia...
...should revolutionary nostalgia sell so well these days? Says his publisher: "Danny is an easy symbol of his generation because he did not renounce his ideals...
...well-being and "self-containment," drive the book forward. The route he travels is scattered with daunting problems and wonderful characters, both of which Leavitt treats with sympathy and skill. Jerene, Eliot's roommate, does graduate work in Linguistics. She studies lost languages, which are a heavy-handed symbol for the derailed communication and crushed spirits littered throughout the book...