Word: symbolical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Solid Symbol. For West Pointer Clay, the four years in Germany had been full of trouble, full of achievement, frustration-and plenty of criticism from all sides. The French objected violently to his singleminded, often stubborn determination to put Germany on its feet economically. Germans of all parties considered him too sternly unyielding. The State Department, sometimes slow in spelling out policy, fumed over his penchant for making policy himself. There were constant wrangles with the EGA. A civilian investigating committee complained only last month that General Clay's administration had deliberately refused to break up two of Germany...
...history would probably weigh other factors. Lucius Clay had dominated the German scene by his firmness and boldness, and emerged as the rock-solid symbol of Western determination. Though his first fleeting reaction to the Berlin blockade was an impulse to ram through with an armored convoy, he had steered clear of blunders that could have brought a shooting war. With Russian capitulation on the Berlin blockade, the way to civilian control of the occupation was as clear as it would ever...
...only one tree to a block; before the Russians backed down last week hundreds had gone. But now tiny new seedlings are pushing their way up through the patches of earth where the old trees once stood. More than anything I have seen here, this is a symbol of Berlin's victory. Despite kidnapings, despite the Communist propaganda barrage, despite intimidation, Berlin's people have remained calm and unruffled. An old man carefully tending his tiny potato patch in the Tiergarten pointed to one of the huge, blasted air raid shelters. He said: 'During the war every...
...even in this scene, the country was in ferment. The "bloodless revolution" was in full swing. Just two years ago, the Diet passed Japan's new constitution. MacArthur himself had written the first draft in his clear, old-fashioned hand. It reduced the Emperor from godhead to symbol, abolished the feudal aristocracy, gave the Diet genuine power to make laws, guaranteed popular liberties, decreed sex equality, renounced the nation's right to make war, even for self-defense. It contained such alien concepts as "public servants" (ancient custom made bureaucrats responsible only to the Throne) and "pursuit...
Democracy has had some strange blossoms. Chic Young's Blondie (see PRESS), which appears with Japanese captions in the Tokyo Asahi, has become the symbol of Minshushugi. Like thousands of her emancipated sisters, Housewife Michiko Yamaga takes time off from her chores each morning to see what Dagwood's wife is doing. "If I had even stopped to read the paper like this in the old days," she says, "my in-laws could have thrown me out of the house for being lazy. Now to read is democratic...