Word: monumentalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week, his casket was removed from Washington's National Cathedral. One witness of the transfer was Omar Bradley, 76, the last of the five-star generals, who saluted his wartime colleague with a sadly trembling hand. After the casket was taken to a spot near the Washington Monument, it was placed atop the horse-drawn gun carriage for the 1½-mile ride to the Capitol. Raven, a spirited black gelding, walked behind, bearing an empty saddle with boots reversed in their stirrups, an ancient salute to a fallen warrior. Some 50,000 people braved chill winds...
Ghetto Green Space. Animal protection is not the only area in which Hickel is showing a conservationist's concern. Since the oil-slick disaster off Santa Barbara, Calif., Hickel has drastically curbed drilling in the Santa Barbara Channel. He plans to enlarge the nearby Channel Islands National Monument's federal wildlife sanctuary, which has been kept free of state and federal lessees. He is also considering measures whereby oil leases would not be granted without an opportunity for both congressional approval and public hearings. While the Administration's tough proposed legislation on coal-mine safety and health...
...Lost," said Scott. "Nobody is lost anymore. The word has become a casket, a husk, a monument to various pretentions. That is the way with words. It's popular to be lost...
...ritual of most British television commentators is as fixed and inflexible as the Nelson Monument, and it calls for a straight face and unwavering tone before even the obvious follies of the mighty. The broadcaster who established the form was the late Richard Dimbleby, the eloquent voice of Britain whose specialty was such sonorous events as the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II and the funeral of Sir Winston Churchill. Last week Dimbleby the Second - Richard's 30-year-old son David - revised the ritual for the BBC. To mark Richard Nixon's visit to Britain, he gave...
...austere CIA headquarters, a bas-relief plaque with Allen Dulles' likeness bears the inscription: "His Monument Is Around Us." It has been 40 years since Secretary of State Henry Stimson disbanded the only U.S. code-breaking operation then in existence with the scornful remark, "Gentlemen do not read each other's mail." Allen Dulles was a gentleman, but he also had a bent for reading other people's mail that was ingenious and invaluable...