Word: symbolization
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...funeral services and joined in the hour-long procession to the cemetery. Fastened to the front of the casket was a red-and-white Solidarity banner. At the graveside, mourners tossed flowers on the casket and then raised their fingers in the V sign that has become the symbol of Polish resistance to authorities. Many wiped away tears as Przemyk's teacher declared: "Greg, I regret that I didn't have time to prepare you for the brutality of life before it struck you in such a cruel...
...swastika a Zuni Indian symbol depicting the gods of rivers and mountains, had raised controversy at the university because of its use as a Nazi emblem in Germany. The Chronicle of Higher Education
...decision counter to student opinion the Board of Regents for New Mexico State University has voted to drop the name Swastika from the university's student yearbook and to find a new symbol for the institution which has used the swastika since...
...Zuni Symbol...
...Solzhenitsyn, who received this year's $170,000 Templeton Foundation Prize for Progress in Religion. The award, inaugurated in 1972 by U.S. Mutual Fund Wizard John M. Templeton, cited the Nobel-prizewinning Soviet exile as a "pioneer in the renaissance of religion in atheist nations" and a "living symbol of the continuing vitality of the Orthodox tradition of spirituality...