The Soviet President might not have liked the symbolism of making his grand entrance at the former state prison known as a grim symbol of repression.

Tbere're a couple of dozen blood-red images floating around, some pretty grim symbols.

It seemed a grim symbol in the southern heaven when seen from the fort-capped hills by Wady Halfa.

Only the grim symbol of X remained to challenge The Shadow.

They come screeching through the streets, sirens wailing and lights flashing, grim symbols of life-or-death emergencies.

No door or window opened in its face, but high on the wall in a sort of ornamented frame there leered a grim symbol of death and decay.

Now both women have become two grim symbols in the social drama that is AIDS: Both are young, good-looking, white and Southern.

Foxhound was more than a password; it was a grim symbol of the ruthless power of Thomas Springer.

The shields had grim symbols on them, the lances matching pennons.

And in a grim symbol of the seeming permanence of his situation, Mr. Otero's shell grew.