Word: monumentalize
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...York is a colonial city, a camping ground. All the hostility, all the cruelty of the world are present in this most prodigious monument man has ever raised to himself . . . this immense, malevolent space . . . this desert of rock...
...Hoover Square, Poland's grateful tribute to him after World War I, he saw how his statue had been destroyed by German grenades. But the heavy-jowled old man, who had brought succor to Europe a quarter-century ago, was still building something more substantial than a marble monument. Restlessly, unsparing of his age, he scourged the world's conscience...
...Ceremonies at Hyde Park, dedicating part of the estate as a national monument, all networks but Mutual (Fri., 2:30 p.m., E.S.T.). Mutual will broadcast a recorded version six hours later...
Built by ex-Dictator General Gerardo Machado, Cuba's Huey Long, the $20 million Capitolio has been called a monument to graft. The yellow diamond, en circled by gold from pen points which had signed contracts for the building and the central highway, had been donated by the contractors and the workers. Before that, the bauble is said to have belonged successively to an Austrian nobleman, an Eng lish collector, a Paris jeweler. Skeptics claimed it was a fake. Either way, it had been a satisfactory zero milestone to measure off Cuba's central highway...
...most lasting monument to New York's embattled Bishop, the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, is still unfinished -although Bishop Manning has succeeded over the years in raising $16,000.000 for its building, largely from non-Episcopalians...