Word: monumentalize
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...ecstatic to find the original woodcuts for wallpaper ordered in the early days. New panels were printed. She relished the great view down toward the Mall from the Truman balcony. "This is what it is all about," she told a visitor, sweeping her arm from the Washington Monument to the Jefferson Memorial. "This is what these men fight so hard...
History will judge Richard Nixon as much more than the Watergate man. And he leaves another, brighter monument: his own superhuman determination and stamina. It seems almost impossible that he has finally been defeated...
Perhaps the flags in Harvard Square weren't at half-mast for President Nixon after all. They might just have easily marked our sorrow at the loss of a different, more literal, monument...
...convicted in the death of 12 and facing another murder trial later this month, readily admits he phonied confessions partly to achieve star status. "I got to really liking it," he told TIME last week. "Manson was nothing compared to me. People built me into something. I became a monument." He adds, "I got fan mail, friends . . . people that would...
...special wrapping room with ribbon and paper holders for the endless stream of birthdays that confront them. The walls and tables of the house are covered with paintings and photographs of family and historic White House moments. There is even a Frank Sinatra primitive painting of the Washington Monument. It's all so far from Pennsylvania Avenue...