Word: symbols
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...maybe it's best just to think about it. It sticks in your mind as a symbol, so think about that. Think about how Americans struggled and tolled for hundreds of years and managed to unlock the closest bonds of nature and then could do nothing with that wonderful knowledge but kill a lot of other people...
...with the force of law; rather it is, in the words of one diplomat, a "declaration of good intentions." As such, it is a token of detente, which, with all its dangers, probably remains the world's best hope for avoiding nuclear war. The declaration also is a symbol of the fact that while strong enmity between Communist and Western systems remains, the cold war tensions that beset Europe for a generation have continued to abate. For all the doubts about the meeting's real significance, it nonetheless offers an impressive historical perspective: it takes place 30 years...
...have reached maturity. They could play and sing like blazes back then, but now they have a strong influence on their father, who faithfully rocks along of does his best to conform to whatever newfangled stuff the boys are into. He were sheepish long hair and display's peace symbol--probably a legacy them hit friend Seager rather than his own political fervor--on his gaiter strop. But the adds still when an old number comes up--he's still the Gibraltar of the band. And it's a fine band, particularly now that Randy has become as good...
...incident that happened just after President Andrew Jackson died. A visitor attending his funeral asked one of Jackson's slaves whether he thought the general would go to heaven. The slave replied, "He will if he wants to." Brogan added the moral: General Jackson was and is a symbol of the typical American...
...environmental research center in Cincinnati, he declared that he was for it-with an important qualification. The President called for a "détente with nature" and pledged his commitment to clean air and water: "As long as I have anything to say about it, this country's symbol will never be an empty beer can in a river of garbage." On the other hand, Ford continued, efforts to protect the environment might have to be eased in order to increase the nation's supply of energy and improve the economy-the same philosophy that the President expressed...