Word: monumental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...book is a fine monument to Acheson, one that probably could not have been created to other less intellectual Secretaries of State. When the book was started more than a year ago, many of Acheson's friends--perhaps even the editor--may have had doubts whether he would survive in office to see the publication. But today more and more people are beginning to agree that "Acheson will be listed 50 years from now (as) among the best of our American Secretaries of State...
Closer to the heart, the new 1952 motorcars were being unveiled in a thousand showrooms across the land. Thoughts of steel shortages and skyrocketing prices went glimmering in the dazzle of chrome and the razzle of the "jet scoop hood," the "Quadri-Jet carburetor" and that glassy monument to planned frustration, the hardtop convertible. "It's loaded, so be careful," pleaded the Cadillac ads. "There's more power in that dynamic engine than you'll ever need-except for the rarest emergency...
...Year. The arguments were impressive : 1) he was winning the Korean war, in so far as he was permitted to win it, when he was fired; 2) his speech before Congress breathed a sense of high public duty long absent from U.S. affairs; 3) the Japanese Treaty was a monument to his bold and generous effort to find a new U.S. relationship with Asian peoples; 4) to millions of Americans, he remained the No. 1 U.S. hero, by no means faded away...
...handed the debt-free deed to a $19,000, grey-shingled, four-bedroom house and its lot. In the course of the afternoon, between 150 and 200 people dropped in to wish her well. Said she: "I regard it as a tribute to my husband, as a beautiful monument to his memory." Said St. Andrew's new pastor, Reuben Swanson: "It is an expression of the love of God in the hearts...
Policemen on duty at the Bowl Friday night said a group of students engaged them in conversation around midnight. During this time, apparently, accomplices were busy defacing the monument which may have to be restored by sandblasting...