Word: monumental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under glaring lights at the Washington Monument, he first had a few words of praise. "Men of the armed forces in Korea, you will go down in history as the first army to fight under a flag of a world organization in the defense of human freedom . . . Victory may be in your hands, but you are winning a greater thing than military victory, for you are vindicating the idea of freedom under international law." But then he got to his main point, that the U.S. must "stick to a hard, tough policy of self-denial and self-control . . . The greatest...
...harmless-looking sort-he had the severe mouth, high forehead and martyred gaze of a divinity student; he was nearsighted, and wore rimless spectacles. No cop bothered him as he wandered toward the Washington Monument in the national capital one evening last week, with a .38 revolver and a roll of adhesive tape in his pocket. Though it was still light, he ducked, unnoticed, into the front seat of a parked sedan...
Carloads of funeral wreaths preceded the flag-draped coffin through Istanbul's streets to the Monument of Eternal Liberty. Turks by the thousands marched in the long cortege that followed, and lined the streets with heads bowed in reverence. All of Turkey paused for a moment last week as the long-dead bones of Midhat Pasha were brought home from exile for proper burial in his native land. Said a spectator: "This is a day not for sorrowing, but for rejoicing...
Last week, 14 years after Kate Buckingham's death, ground was finally broken for a less conspicuous monument to be constructed in Lincoln Park. The new 130-ft.-sq. memorial should still attract plenty of attention. On top of three stone terraces a polished black granite pylon would rise 70 feet, dwarfing the 13-ft. statue of Hamilton (completed ten years ago) - not to mention the park's 12-ft. bronze Lincoln...
Harvard Clubs in 1904 erected a monument to the University's founder in the shape of the Chapel of St. John--commonly known as Harvard Chapel. The foundations of the chapel were laid nearly a thousand years ago. The building, however, was allowed to lapse into decay until restored in medieval style by interested Alumni...