Word: monumental
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mercilessly, time after time baffling the listener's desire to discover in it any intelligible contours, whether harmonic, rhythmic, or melodic. But the Violin Concerto subdues the usually frigid and austere atonal system, and makes it the medium for an instantly moving masterpiece, one that will stand as a monument to a great composer who died before his time...
...Hopkins landed, as the bet prescribed, on Devil's Tower. A lava blister, formed by an eruption 20,000,000 years ago, Devil's Tower is a gigantic rock stump rising 1,200 feet into the sky. Teddy Roosevelt made it the country's first national monument. Its weathered sides are fluted, nearly vertical, practically unscalable...
...symphony, the grinding cacophony of production in the great Curtiss-Wright aircraft plant near the Buffalo airport clattered to a deep, silent stop one day last week. For an hour the production line stood still while Big Bill Knudsen and other national defense bigwigs dedicated a low-lying, businesslike monument to U.S. ingenuity and industrial speed...
...alive, lying under a bush. He had cut one wrist, tried to slake his thirst with his own blood. These two were the only survivors. Some of the others had stumbled for miles across the sand, looking for water. Nine miles off, Tomas Ponce had scratched on border monument No. 201: "Dying of thirst, hungry." Dead was lighthearted German Cornejo. Dead was his 17-year-old son Rafael, who, desperate with suffering, had slashed his own throat...
...blue with protests. The space had been reserved for expansion of nearby Arlington National Cemetery. The Army scheme would require new roads, new utilities, thousands of new houses in already crowded suburbs in northern Virginia. It would disrupt the east-west axis running from the Capitol through the Washington Monument across the Potomac. It would break up a fine vista...