Word: monumentalize
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...King visited the Canadian military cemetery at Bergen op Zoom.* It was dark when he got there, in a cavalcade of cars that slithered over slippery roads, but automobile headlights lit up the rows of 1,800 white crosses. The Prime Minister placed a wreath on the central monument. Then, head bared to a cold rain, he walked slowly along the rows, reading the names on the crosses. When he left for London to attend the wedding of Princess Elizabeth, Prime Minister King carried a memory of Canada's fighting men with...
...mountain, why couldn't he? For years he had been itching to, so Boston-born Sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski, 39, bought a mountain - a small one - in the Black Hills of South Dakota and laid his plans. He was going to chip it down to a 300-ft.-high monument : Sioux Chief Crazy Horse, who wiped out Custer's cavalry at Little Big Horn...
...million-dollar mark. First things first: let us decide what we want and then let us worry about getting it. After the first World War ten years elapsed before the erection of Memorial Chapel. Who will not gladly wait two years or more now to see something transcending a monument or a set of bells...
Every Sunday, as many as 30 Casasolas gather at Doña Refugio's big table in suburban Mixcoac to criticize the week's output and argue sports and politics. This week they could take time out from table talk to toast a monument to family unity: Volume 22 of the Casasola Graphic History of the Revolution, 1910-1940. Into its making had gone some of the choicest pictures that three generations of Casasolas had contributed to the family archives (no Casasola uses the word "files...
Mexicans crowded Mexico City's cypress-shaded Chapultepec Park to mark the 100th anniversary of Los Niños Heroes. Even after President Truman's popular gesture in visiting Los Niños monument last March, it was a touchy moment. Some Americans and Mexicans thought that to send West Point cadets to last week's ceremony was a big mistake...