Word: symbolizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...students and street people shouting "Burn, baby, burn!" youths set fire to piles of debris and shoved them through the Bank of America doorway. Some of the students argued that the attack was senseless. The burners, unable to articulate their reasons, answered that the bank was a "symbol of corporate corruption...
Winning over its youthful critics and antiwar antagonists has long been a major aim of the Nixon Administration. One move in that direction was the forced retirement of Lieut. General Lewis B. Hershey, 76, as director and aging symbol of the Selective Service System. The White House has also held out hope that the draft might be abolished altogether, but that notion is not highly popular on Capitol Hill. The President's choice to succeed Hershey, Pentagon Consultant Charles DiBona, 37, was scuttled by Senators who did not approve of his advocacy of a volunteer Army. Nevertheless, the Administration...
...element fluorine (chemical symbol: F) is added to water in the form of several compounds, notably fluosilicic acid, sodium fluosilicate and sodium fluoride. For convenience, all are described simply as fluorides...
Calling it "a symbol of American imperialism," the protestors twice set fire to the Bank of America building. Bank officials, anticipating trouble had previously locked money and important locuments in the fireproof vault where they escaped damage...
...also be enactments of spiritual or important phenomena. Sex with animals may be the beginning of interspecies communication; some dolphinhuman breakthroughs have been made on the sexual level. One guy who says he digs shit during sex occasionally says it's not the taste or texture. but a symbol that he's so far into sex that those things no longer bug him. Sado/masochism, when consensual, can be described as a highly artistic endeavor, a ballet the constraints of which are the thresholds of pain and pleasure...