Word: monumentalize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...antiwar movement appeared to have a new life. Almost 100,000 people gathered at the Washington Monument and yelled "Stop the War" loud enough to be heard at the site of the swearing-in. And it was an older crowd than previously, with a lot of children in baby carriages. The movement seemed to have broadened its base; perhaps it was on the move again...
...most visible and redoubtable monument to the cold war remains the 840-mile barricade of barbed wire, minefields, watchtowers and armed police that has constituted the frontier between divided Germany for two decades. In spite of the political détente that is expected to arise from the recent state treaty signed by the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic, East German authorities are reinforcing the deadly barrier. In recent months, for example, workmen have been methodically replacing the barbed wire fences with new gratings; their mesh is too fine to climb...
Judge: Do you take yourself for a historical monument...
Victoria: even today the name conjures up a glacial and portly figure swathed in black mourning, the aged face set in its pale exophthalmic stare of hauteur as she proceeds (for monarchs do not walk) across some shaven lawn at Balmoral. She is a living monument, testy, imperious, not amused. When the old die we remember them as old, and so it has been with Queen Victoria...
...history of the Spanish Riding School, where the Lippizaner horses have always been trained, down through the centuries to its present site in Vienna. Erich Lessing's photographs are no substitute for watching the massed horses moving to the strains of Mozart, but this book is a monument to the disciplined beauty that classical horsemanship can achieve...