Word: monumentalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Elizabeth must have read the papers, for the next day, at the Bonn city hall, she was positively beaming. When she laid a wreath on the nearby Beethoven monument, the crowd responded with loud cheers and chants of "Elizabet, Eliz-a-bet." That night, after entertaining 88 dignitaries at dinner atop the Petersberg, the Queen and her guests stepped onto the terrace to watch "The Rhine in Flames," a dramatic fireworks display that covered the river halfway to Coblenz, 30 miles away...
...beach resort of Sables-d'Olonne, he cried, "This country, this France which has bound its wounds, is recovering its power, its influence; this France which is increasingly reckoned with from one end of the world to the other . . ." In Sainte-Hermine, he laid a wreath at the monument to Georges Clemenceau, the French "Tiger" of World War I, and said: "Today, France is as Clemenceau would have wished: independent, free, mistress of her destiny...
...were dedicating a memorial to the late President at Runnymede. "With all their hearts, my people shared his triumphs, grieved at his reverses and wept at his death," said Queen Elizabeth, as she gave to the U.S. an acre of British soil on which stood a simple, white stone monument, 10 ft. wide and 5 ft. high. Shaded by a hawthorne tree and overlooking the Thames, it bears a passage from Kennedy's inaugural address: "Let every nation know that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, or oppose...
...Schilling. For the Soviets, who insisted on Austria's military neutrality in the treaty, it was a gamble, or, as one observer put it, "the Danubian sprat to catch a fatter German mackerel." But Germany has not reunited on the Austrian model, and Austria has become a thriving monument to capitalism. More than 80% of its soaring foreign trade is with the West, and the schilling is one of the free world's soundest currencies, backed 125% by gold and foreign-exchange reserves...
...Cuba and Cyprus sent representatives to Winneba, the conference was pointedly ignored by all of Nkrumah's neighbors, and most of Africa's moderate states dis trust him. There was, in fact, only one redeeming event: to mark the conference opening Nkrumah unveiled a 75-ft. monument of himself. The work of a Polish sculptress, it is the biggest, solidest Nkrumah in the world...