Word: monumentalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE. In an elaborately built, indoor San Francisco, passengers ride cable cars through quiet, hilly streets. Suddenly the earth rumbles, hinged buildings sway and shake, a house-built like a Venetian blind-crumbles while-u-wait, a tall monument topples, is stopped just short of clobbering the spectators...
Said a disgusted minister from Ohio last week: "It would be better to let the church collapse. Then all that masonry could be carted away, and a simple, impressive monument could be erected to mark Golgotha and the tomb. That's what I came here...
Moss's record is his own monument. He has won most of the world's great motor races, many of them several times. He has been Britain's champion nine times. One of his regular rivals wryly acknowledges: "When I pass Moss, I wonder what is wrong with his car." Says his fellow British driver, Tony Brooks: "Driving over 200 miles on each of the world's circuits, Stirling would turn out quite a bit better than anyone else." Says Australia's skilled Jack Brabham: "He's the toughest competitor anybody can have...
...conquest. In 1872, when every faro den east of the Mississippi had barred its doors to his talent for bank breaking, Cozad made a down payment on 40,000 acres of Union Pacific land in Nebraska near the Platte River. A community there, he dreamed, would be his monument, and good farming families, lured from depression-strangled Ohio, would build...
...alfalfa-growing center of the West), but John Cozad never was the same. He toyed furtively again with faro, failed as a resort owner in Atlantic City, N.J. When he died in New York in 1906, he had reached a century he did not understand. But he earned his monument. His younger son was Painter Robert Henri, a founder of New York's famed "Ashcan School'' of realists; in a Manhattan gallery hangs Henri's stunning portrait of Gambler ohn Cozad, dark eyes brooding on a private empire whose...