Word: symbols
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only symbol that will be carried is the national flag, as a sign of national unity and a call to the greatness of Argentina's power." As a further safeguard, the police had installed immovable steel barriers in drilled holes in the pavement surrounding the palace...
William Shockley is a name that arouses more hatred and anger than any other in academia. The shrewish, white-haired Stanford professor, who was awarded the Nobel physics prize in 1948 for inventing the transistor, has become in recent years the prime symbol of the school of thought which maintains that blacks are genetically inferior to whites...
Hope Wigglesworth, director of the Radcliffe College Fund, said that financial aid has stood out as an exception to the responsibility Harvard and Radcliffe share in other areas, and called the fund drive a "symbol of a working partnership between the two colleges...
Agnew was a dishonest official, thrust into a position of visibility by Richard Nixon's crass political judgement in 1968. Nixon's man became a surrogate for his administration in speaking tours around the nation; now Agnew has become a symbol of Republican corruption...
...such instruments as the two-stringed erh-hu, or alto fiddle, and assorted gongs, clappers, drums and pipes. But the high, falsetto fioritura of the singers is difficult to take at the start, even if it is the Chinese ideal of good singing. Most problematical of all are the symbolic sets and the symbol-laden gestures...