Word: monumentalize
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...harmless-looking sort-he had the severe mouth, high forehead and martyred gaze of a divinity student; he was nearsighted, and wore rimless spectacles. No cop bothered him as he wandered toward the Washington Monument in the national capital one evening last week, with a .38 revolver and a roll of adhesive tape in his pocket. Though it was still light, he ducked, unnoticed, into the front seat of a parked sedan...
Carloads of funeral wreaths preceded the flag-draped coffin through Istanbul's streets to the Monument of Eternal Liberty. Turks by the thousands marched in the long cortege that followed, and lined the streets with heads bowed in reverence. All of Turkey paused for a moment last week as the long-dead bones of Midhat Pasha were brought home from exile for proper burial in his native land. Said a spectator: "This is a day not for sorrowing, but for rejoicing...
Harvard Clubs in 1904 erected a monument to the University's founder in the shape of the Chapel of St. John--commonly known as Harvard Chapel. The foundations of the chapel were laid nearly a thousand years ago. The building, however, was allowed to lapse into decay until restored in medieval style by interested Alumni...
...author of a book called "The Road Ahead." Subtitled "America's Creeping Revolution," this book is a vitriolic attack on "America's Fabians"--i.e. F.D.R., the Democratic Party, organized labor, and the "holdes of Socialist doctrinaires" who run the country. Flynn praises the Un-American Activities Committee as "a monument to vision and patriotism." The book is a thorough presentation of the C.C.G. opinion, and the organization plans to put it in every fifth American home. To date, over seven hundred thousand copies have been distributed to legislators, public libraries, schools, and "top-level opinion-molding individuals...
Squatting in the middle of the Rugby College campus in England is a small monument bearing the inscription. "This stone commemorates the exploit of William Webb Ellis, who with a fine disregard for the rules of football, as played in his time, first took the ball in his arms and ran with it, thus originating the distinctive feature of the Rugby Game...