Word: monumentalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Surely only an undiscriminating God would have damaged such a priceless monument. He could as easily and more economically have removed the offending cleric by a fall downstairs...
...assassination of ex-President Alvaro Obregón that led to the founding of the PRI as a coalition of compromise. Yet it is emblematic of Mexico City that the severed hand of General Obregón is still on display in a jar installed in a monument at the site of the restaurant where he was assassinated...
...pride in their nation seemed clearer and surer than it has in a long time. This year the fireworks appeared to suggest a large and complicated and real sense of shared pleasure in the nation and what it represents. They shot up over New York harbor and the Washington Monument and Boston and Philadelphia and Chicago and St. Louis and San Francisco and thousands of town squares and picnic grounds across the nation. The projectiles fired up and burst in the black summer night-magic bright sprays that looked like sudden sea anemones or supernovas, loud and martial with concussions...
...estimate, Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin, 64, has performed rites over the carcasses of 2,500 cold salmon sacrificed in the search for world brotherhood. The salmon were nibbled into oblivion, but Dobrynin goes on, a monument to cunning and a thoroughly disciplined alimentary canal...
...Washington Monument stood white above the deep summer green of the trees. Reagan squinted and smiled and soothed. "Scoop believed in arms control, but he refused to support any initiative that would not ensure the survival of the West." Remember that, fellow citizens, when you hear cries from the timid to rush to the table with the Soviets. "Scoop never stopped speaking out against anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union," said Reagan. "And he was never afraid to speak out against anti-Semitism at home. Scoop Jackson just would not be bullied." Let the people contemplate the Democrats' anguish...