Word: symbolizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...morning he had a sadder duty. Sitting in St. Paul's Cathedral, Lew Douglas heard the memorial service for the late Ambassador John Gilbert Winant, to thousands of wartime Britons, the shy, gaunt symbol of U.S. help, a man Britain will not forget...
...symbol of the new Poland when I went to call on a quite ordinary Pole in Warsaw. His address turned out to be a large building with several entries. Since I had no apartment number for him, I asked a man for directions...
...symbol of a Power Eterne...
They had remodeled the first few floors of a building on Gravier Street and called it International House. It became the symbol of the brisk new day. International House was designed to draw New Orleanians together in a common aim, to stop cutthroat competition, oppose tariff barriers, sing the praises of the Mississippi Valley and cultivate the commerce of all the world...
...children of Germany knew well what the vintners meant; thousands of German kids, searching for food, rattled bones in garbage cans. If they found an egg, however stale, it was precious. And if the egg could be cooked in an old war helmet (see cut), that was a symbol of the menacing German future as well as of the guilty German past...