Word: monumentalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Monrovia last week William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman, 68, was inaugurated President of Liberia for the fifth time. Almost each inauguration has given a landmark to the country-a monument here, an assembly hall there. This time, 2,000 workers, about a fifth of Monrovia's labor force, and 150 foreign technicians have been working against time to complete the new executive mansion...
...outside, Britain's Foreign Office is bastard Byzantine; inside it is a stately slum. A grimy, drafty pile of Victorian granite opposite 10 Downing Street, it has been likened to a provincial Italian museum, a stranded gunboat, a monument to Muddling Through. Yet when the government announced plans last month to demolish the building, traditionalists reacted as if Eton were being nationalized. "Magnificently British!" harrumphed Lord Harrowby. "Representative of our greatest period!" snapped Lord Salisbury...
...great storm of protest, the Negro leaders sponsored the now famous March on Washington. It was a remarkable spectacle, one of disorganized order, with a stateliness that no amount of planning could have produced. Some 200,000 strong, whites and blacks of all ages walked from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial. There, the Negro leaders spoke-Wilkins, A. Philip Randolph, Young and SNICK's Lewis...
...Joseph Leahy thought so the Sunday he saw green-eyed Actress Jan Tice (5 ft. 10 in., 37-25-37) posing nude in front of the Morgan Guaranty Trust Building while Writer John Wilcock held her coat and Photographer Jean Kirkland took pictures-for a book on New York monuments, they explained. It takes proof of lewdness as well as nudeness to make a case of indecent exposure, but this problem did not arise; photographer, writer and model were all charged with disorderly conduct-acting "in such a manner as to be offensive to others." But for others...
...White House. As the President fiddled with tiny town houses and scaled-down Government office buildings, Walton apologized for bothering him with a matter of "less than global content." Kennedy quickly reassured him. "Hell," he said wryly, "that's all right. After all, this may be the only monument we leave...