Word: monumental
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flitted from school to school-Wyoming Seminary (Methodist) in Kingston, Pa., the University of Maryland, Georgetown University-played topflight tennis and some football, and did little else. He sold Crackerjack at Griffith Stadium, spent many a summer as a lifeguard in the Tidal Basin Pond near the Washington Monument...
...Cool Monument. It was mastery of the water problem that first made Arizona a place to live instead of a place to leave. In 1867 an Indian fighter named Jack Swilling began to investigate the ruins of some ancient canals (believed to have been built in the loth century by the Hohokam people). Swilling decided to set up an irrigation company, succeeded in starting a new town. One literate resident proposed that they call their town Phoenix because, he said, they would raise there a new civilization upon the ruins of the old. The new civilization...
Phoenix cherishes another unique monument to desert progress: the downtown Fox Theater, in 1931 the first building in town to install an air-conditioning system. As mechanical air conditioners became cheaper, they eventually became a necessity for every business, standard equipment in homes. This simple piece of technology, now installed in automobiles, made the desert endurable year round, made the vast reaches of Arizona a promising center for easy living...
...these terms the new U.S. -Japanese Treaty may well be Kishi's monument, even if in the rough and tumble of Japanese politics it should also become in time his political tombstone. Prime Minister Kishi himself remains serenely optimistic, as befits a man who follows the philosophy of the "blue mountain in the distance." He explains: "The road to the mountain is obscured by many foothills. Some of these must be climbed, some must be gone around, and a good road must be built as the advance proceeds. In some places there will be short cuts, but in general...
...Christmas Eve in Cologne, hoodlums smeared swastikas and the words "Jews Out" on a new synagogue that Chancellor Konrad Adenauer had helped dedicate three months earlier. They daubed paint on a monument to Jewish victims of Hitler. This was just the beginning, but it quickly inspired imitators.* In the Hessian town of Seligenstadt, an 85-year-old Jew received a letter threatening him with crucifixion. Vandals scrawled "Death to the Jews" in red paint on park benches in Braunschweig, and in Rheydt the word "Swine" was scratched on a Jew's shopwindow. In the Ruhr, and to the north...