Word: monumentalize
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...Secretary of War Stimson witnessed the meeting. Outside laborers stuffed huge hunks of ice into the car's air-conditioning system. A few grizzled chickens grubbed aimlessly among the weeds that all but concealed the adjoining tracks. A group of truck drivers idled about the foot of a monument that marks the site of Fort La Presentation, built by the French in 1749 for the protection of its mission among the Indians of the Five Nations...
...Spain's people is the bronze statue of King Carlos in Toledo, which lies against its base with legs amputated by a shell, one arm gone and a gash from a shell fragment in its navel. Franco has decreed that the Alcazar be left unrestored, as a monument to "the fury of the Rojos...
...ugly turn. The delegates didn't know what they were going to do, but were determined to do something. Harry Hopkins, conferring endlessly, smiled a satisfied smile. He was now certain of 900 delegates out of 1,100; John Nance Garner's career heeded only a suitable monument; Montana's Burton K. Wheeler had been bought off ten days before by a personal promise from Franklin Roosevelt that the foreign-policy plank would be as isolationist as Mr. Wheeler. Maryland's Millard Tydings was stubborn but negligible...
...changed his style, and spat out a good old Fourth of July oration. His enemy: totalitarian nations who boast that they are the new, strong people, fresher and more vigorous than the decadent democrats of the U. S. Shouted an angry and Whitmanesque Mr. Ickes. standing before the Washington Monument...
...Battle of Oran last week terminated an era in Anglo-French relations: that of the Entente Cordiale. The Entente, born in 1904 and practically the only political monument to fun-loving, Francophile Edward VII, was only a general understanding primarily concerning African colonial matters. By 1907 it had blossomed into the Triple Entente of Great Britain, France and Russia, and bore its outstanding fruit in lining up the Allies against the central continental power of Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I. In the 20 years after 1919 the Entente was frequently strained: when Britain refused to consider Germany...