Word: symbolizes
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American Opinion magazine, published by John Birch Society Founder Robert Welch, compared the familiar peace symbol to an anti-Christian "broken cross" carried by the Moors when they invaded Spain in the 8th century. A recent national Republican newsletter noted an ominous similarity to a symbol used by the Nazis in World War II; some experts say it was a letter in an ancient Nordic alphabet. Any resemblance, however, is probably coincidental. The peace design was devised in Britain for the first Ban-the-Bomb Aldermaston march in 1958. The lines inside the circle stand for "nuclear disarmament." They...
...peace hieroglyphic is ubiquitous. It has appeared hanging around the necks of G.I.s in Viet Nam; on a fast-selling line of women's dresses; fashioned into belt buckles, cuff links, rings and tie clasps. Lately, two firms have tried separately to register the symbol as a commercial trademark (the U.S. Patent Office has ruled that out). An Alexandria, Va., firm is now marketing a clip-on typewriter key bearing the symbol. One prospective customer is Sally Sanders, a reporter for the Redding, Conn., Pilot. She plans to type it at the end of her copy instead...
...Singer Mason Williams, part of which was made into a NET television show. The company has begun direct service linking a dozen colleges with major cities and has hired student representatives on campus to promote Greyhound. Kerrigan claims that many students see the bus as a sort of folk symbol-a metaphor for reality, a part of the new open-road mystique-and that they refer to travelers who take planes as "plastic people." In the last year, references to Greyhound or bus have bounced up in several popular songs, notably the country music hit Thank God and Greyhound. Sample...
Elsewhere in the Ivy League Saturday, Don Jackson upheld his reputation as the symbol of Columbia's renaissance, passing for three touchdowns and scoring the fourth himself in the Lions' 30-14 rout of Rutgers, Columbia hosts Cornell this weekend...
Corliss also cited the fact that Kingman Brewster, president of Yale, has called upon the alumni of the Yale Law School to support the Kent 25, who have "become a symbol of civil liberties under attack...