Word: monumental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...author of a book called "The Road Ahead." Subtitled "America's Creeping Revolution," this book is a vitriolic attack on "America's Fabians"--i.e. F.D.R., the Democratic Party, organized labor, and the "holdes of Socialist doctrinaires" who run the country. Flynn praises the Un-American Activities Committee as "a monument to vision and patriotism." The book is a thorough presentation of the C.C.G. opinion, and the organization plans to put it in every fifth American home. To date, over seven hundred thousand copies have been distributed to legislators, public libraries, schools, and "top-level opinion-molding individuals...
...sunrise, both the note and the coat-hangers had disappeared. The tombstone was taken away, leaving a mound of dirt to puzzle students. Rumors about a rampant Scottish Nationalist circulated about the Yard. No one guessed the real sentiment behind the "monument...
...original resting place of the tombstone which recently disappeared from the Dunster House Superintendent's office was located yesterday after extensive sleuthing. Archibald M--'s grave lies near a monument of old cannons in the Cambridge City Cemetery...
Several pounds of earth were formed into a mound next to the stone and many cost-hangers were put in the ground to encircle the monument. The culprits also left a note, telling where the tombstone belonged...
Squatting in the middle of the Rugby College campus in England is a small monument bearing the inscription. "This stone commemorates the exploit of William Webb Ellis, who with a fine disregard for the rules of football, as played in his time, first took the ball in his arms and ran with it, thus originating the distinctive feature of the Rugby Game...