Word: monumented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American Jew" [June 25]. You have caught beautifully the pride of being a Jew, the pride of belonging within a great people, the pride of helping to build a nation, and the love of the U.S. Considering the history of the Jews for 57 centuries, this development is a monument to the validity of free institutions. Of course, there is always the danger of euphoria. For, we all know, the evil of anti-Semitism lurks even here in alleys and cracks and in dark minds, ready to break out if we are not entirely vigilant. But in mounting this vigilance...
Another way to bag a boodle is to have the good luck to own property where some big enterprise wishes to build. See MODERN LIVING, Monuments to Stubbornness. Our cover story is a monument not to money but to a canny Scot who makes a lot of it. For a spin with the hottest rod on the road, see SPORT, Hero with a Hot Shoe...
Across the U.S., virtually every city and suburb can point with pride-and sometimes alarm-at those who forced Progress to step around them rather than let it walk over them. For most holdouts, there may be satisfaction in the fact that they automatically produce a monument to their own stubbornness. The symmetry of Manhattan's towering RCA Building is notched by a drab four-story building housing Hurley's Bar, whose owner turned down offers of $1,000,000. San Francisco's 27-story Shell Building is conspicuously shaped to surround a narrow, eleven-story building...
...loss was literature's gain. To anesthetize his lacerated pride and evaporate his boiling anger, the idle exile seized upon a project the busy politician could never have accomplished: night and day for at least eight and perhaps for 20 years, he labored to produce his enormous literary monument...
...newest monument to the New Harvard, the Roy E. Larsen Hall at the Ed School, received its first callers yesterday. A group of old Cambridge ladies, a priest, and a few merely curious toured its nine floors of light-controlled, heat-regulated bare cinder block halls and unfurnished beige rooms. The building, they decided, backed soul...