Word: monumentalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Capitol (a new freeway will be routed underneath the basin). Elsewhere, plans are being developed for underground parking for 25,000 cars, which at present clog the Mall and surround the Lincoln Memorial with a carbon-monoxide sea at rush hour. Funds are also now available for the Pershing Monument, which will serve as the nucleus for a new National Center at the White House end of Pennsylvania Avenue. And as of last week, most of the go ahead signals had been given for three major structures that Owings believes will give impressive body and substance to the emerging...
...March 5, 1770, in which a Negro, Crispus Attucks, was the first to die. "On that night," John Adams wrote, "the foundation of American independence was laid." The Museum has, furthermore, gathered a sizable amount of material relating to the dedication on November 14, 1888, of an imposing monument to Attucks, which may still be seen on the Boston Common...
...ordeals are still not over. In the U.S. military hospital in Guam, nothing could convince him that the war was over-or that the Americans were not somehow rigging a trap to kill him. Repatriated to his village in Japan, where his father had erected a monument, Masashi found it impossible to shake off the instincts of the hunted animal. Every sound in the night awakens him in panic. "I understand well enough that there's not the slightest element of danger," Itō writes, "but my senses won't acknowledge this conclusion. Once it has taken hold...
...Dodd and which must now draft a code, maintains that it is "a terribly difficult assignment. I'm not even sure that it's possible." History supports his skepticism. Previous scandals, while firing reformist zeal, have resulted in little action. The Senate ethics committee itself is a monument to congressional distaste for self-regulation. Created by a 1964 resolution, the committee had no members for a full year and was virtually moribund until the Dodd investigation. The ten-point platitude adopted in 1958 as a code for the entire federal establishment is little more than an inside joke...
Police said that all 17 were members of a small group of Negro terrorists calling themselves the Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM), the same organization that, billing itself as the Black Liberation Front, had cooked up a cabal two years ago to blow up the Statue of Liberty, the Washington Monument and the Liberty Bell. This time, according to police, under the cover title of the Jamaica Rifle and Pistol Club, RAM members were drawing up a plot to assassinate N.A.A.C.P. Executive Director Roy Wilkins, Urban League Executive Director Whitney Young Jr. and at least three other moderate Negro leaders...