She lived in Brooklyn Heights and after many years had attained what she considered the highest symbol of making it in New York: a seven-room apartment.
The indictment extended beyond the assassin, for something in the nation itself, some strain of madness and violence, had destroyed the highest symbol of law and order".
On the day after the Kennedy assassination James Reston was reflecting a widespread feeling when he wrote, in the first paragraph of a front-page "Times" story headed "Why America Weeps", "The indictment extended beyond the assassin, for something in the nation itself, some strain of madness and violence, had destroyed the highest symbol of law and order".
Although he was already in Olympic-grade physical condition, that would just not do for the cover of Men's Health magazine, which has elevated the male abdominal muscles to the highest symbol of manhood, akin to what Playboy did for the breast.
In a symbolic strike at a high-profile symbol of the government, two mortar rounds struck the Information Ministry, which also houses the ruling Baath Party's publication department.
On December 31st the main Karachi stockmarket, a high-performing symbol of the strong economic growth of Mr Musharraf's era, opened nearly 4.5% down.
Biggs will be mourned by few, but with his death has gone a high-profile symbol of a vanished criminal era that diverted many.
Google, which employed Wael Ghonim, an early leader of the popular uprising that brought down Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, has emerged as a particularly high-profile symbol of the forces of tumult.
As one of its leading critics (a role that included his stint as a Post columnist), he became a high-profile symbol of the daunting struggle for media freedom throughout the Arab world today.
Trump touched down just before 9 p.m. aboard Air Force One, the high-tech symbol of presidential power that made a three-flight journey, including two refueling stops, over more than 20 hours from Joint Base Andrews just outside Washington.
