Word: symbols
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What better symbol of exploited womanhood than the pulchritudinous office worker of jest and lore? Lustful male chauvinist bosses chase her around desks, jealous wives plot her undoing, and her alleged lack of brains is a national joke. But at least, says Washington Post Columnist William Raspberry, she has a job-which is more than can be said for her less well-endowed sisters...
...previous Prime Minister could visit the city because the bitterness towards the government for ignoring the suffering of the bombing victims was so great. Sato said he came here to pray for the dead and to commemorate the city as a symbol of world peace. We A-Bomb victims could not allow him to come to the ground where our parents and brothers and sisters died under the negligence of his government...
...Golda Meir had sought to buy for a year. The Administration has indicated that the planes will be shipped piecemeal and for only as long as Israel continues to be cooperative. In an election year, however, Nixon is not likely to hold back on jets that have become a symbol of American support for Israel...
Charles de Gaulle, leader and symbol of victorious Free France, visited Russia in 1944, and his hosts took him to visit the battlefield at Stalingrad. De Gaulle pensively surveyed the terrain, then turned to the Russians and said: "A great people-[pause] the Germans." The story, perhaps apocryphal, tells much about the man: his frosty independence, his detached historical perspective, his ability to deliver the calculated shock...
...began appearing in classical bastions like Carnegie Hall and receiving invitations from presidents and prime ministers, Mahalia emerged as a symbol of the civil rights movement. In 1963 millions of TV viewers watched as, standing next to Martin Luther King just before his "I've Got a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial, she summed up the frustrations and aspirations of the movement with I Been 'Buked and I Been Scorned. But as star or symbol, she refused to take herself too seriously. "Ever since I began singing in the big concert halls," she said, "people have been...