Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Negro enlistments must go down on the records as a gingerly step at best. It is deserving of applause, not so much for what it does as for what it represents. Like the Declaration of Independence and the Fall of the Bastille and the Emancipation Proclamation, it is a symbol of what can be done, more than it is a concrete accomplishment. There is in the nature of this latest grant little indication of a change in attitude. A seaman's rating and an eventual petty officership may in themselves seem like the ultimate in advancement to the colored volunteer...
...Foreign Minister-was in sober truth as great a statesman and as big a figure in hemisphere affairs as any to be found in Washington. Ezequiel Padilla was not only the man whose eloquence swayed the Rio Conference to support the United Nations; he was the symbol of the coming of age of the American republics...
...most difficult problems in statesmanship. In one respect he had already made what seemed an excellent start. As Britain's envoy it would be his privilege, if he wished, to stay in the Viceroy's elephantine palace in New Delhi. This red sandstone and white granite symbol of British rule stands on a hill overlooking the city and lifts a copper dome 177 feet against the hot Indian skies. Under the dome a huge crystal chandelier lights a marble throne room bounded by ten-foot torches and yellow marble columns. The surrounding building is a mammoth jewel cabinet...
Last week, from Guayaquil jail, Captain Félix Guerrero announced his engagement to Señorita Julia Esther Briones. Said Julia: "Our engagement ring is of steel, instead of gold, as a symbol of the durability of our love...
...year ago might soothe him. He would not dare to make side trips up rivers like the Bosna or the Drina, because they lead to regions held by General Draja Mihailovich's growing guerrilla army. This band of 145-150,000 Serbs, Greeks and Bulgars is becoming a symbol of freedom to all the silent people of the Balkans. The Germans and Italians have increased their armies in Yugoslavia to 400,000. They have ordered peasants to grow no tall crops within 500 yards of rail lines or main roads. It required five Nazified Bulgarian divisions to reopen...