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...bombings in Bangkok erupted in two waves. The first series of blasts exploded around 6:30 in the evening, just as revelers were beginning to crowd the streets of this party-loving town. The six targets included a shopping mall, a supermarket and a bus stop at Victory Monument, one of Bangkok's busiest gathering places. "At first, I thought the noise was a flat tire," says waiter Thanapon Prukthara, whose outdoor restaurant is located less than 20 yards from the Victory Monument detonation site. "But then I heard all this screaming and saw people lying on the ground...
...Three hours later, forensic police sifted through the Victory Monument bus-stop wreckage for possible bomb components, collecting and photographing a handful of nails, a metal wristwatch band and twisted chunks of metal. After watching the police comb for evidence, German tourist Irina Martin said she was heading back to her hotel instead of going to Bangkok's famous New Year's countdown at the Central World shopping mall complex, as she had originally planned. "I heard rumors from other people that there might be more explosions at midnight," said the kindergarten teacher from Hamburg. "It's not worth going...
...comprising nearly 600 residents, established and owned by a non-profit organization consisting of three faith institutions: Kadimah-Toras Moshe, St. Anthony’s Roman Catholic Church, and Community United Methodist Church. It stands today on the corner of North Harvard Street and Western Avenue as a living monument to community empowerment, interfaith cooperation, and public-private partnership in the creation of affordable housing...
Nobody really forgets about the tourists. Rather, John Harvard’s adoring visitors endow the ritual with meaning. Harvard students do not pee on the statue in spite of its significance. They pee on the statue because of its significance. Urinating on the monument to higher education in America is a bizarre attempt at self-affirmation. It says: "Not only do I go to Harvard, but I spit, nay, pee, on it as well...
...additional 4,000 cars a day that will result from the construction of the courthouse and office space will absolutely overwhelm the intersection [where the memorial is located],” Edmonds said, adding, “In my opinion, this expansion of traffic relegates the monument area to nothingness.” But Clarke said that “all of the proposed changes are being done within the existing roadway layout.” And his firm’s lawyer, Susan F. Brand, said that the courthouse’s arrival in the town...