Word: monumented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ensure wide ownership, individual and corporate purchases would be permanently limited. Total corporate ownership, depending upon how well individual sales go, could be held to 30% or less. The lower the better! This would create an economic monument to American taxpayers, additional dignity for competent TV A employees, and several measures of in security for the politically oriented, smug, libertine bureaucrats...
...four steel bearings atop its own Woodbury White granite plaza. Headlined the irreverent Yale Daily News: TOMB CONCEALS DECAYED BOOKS. Students instantly dubbed it "The Waffle," but it is the most frankly dramatic of the new buildings at Yale. In his new library, Bunshaft has made books the monument. First editions are arrayed in a glass tower for all to see-and to use. To keep out damaging direct rays of the sun, Bunshaft has provided outer walls of translucent Vermont marble that luminously filters the outside light...
...West Germany, a rapid series of "clarifications" flowed in from Washington. U.S. Army Secretary Cyrus Vance, in Frankfurt to observe Big Lift, declared flatly: "We have no intention of withdrawing any of our six division equivalents that are here." Secretary of State Dean Rusk, in Germany to dedicate a monument to the late George Marshall, conferred with Erhard and West German Foreign Minister Gerhard Schröder, added some pointed sentences to a scheduled speech...
...magazine's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., is an overgrown Western ranch-all adobe walls and in door barbecue pits. Streams meander over the property; flowers riot in the border beds. The setting could serve as a monument to leisure living, Western style, and that is exactly what it is. In this sun-kissed journalistic keep south of San Francisco, the Western way of life is reverenced as a backyard religion because Sunset Magazine is its priest...
Because of the fine detail of the relief in which the figures are depicted, the monument is regarded as rivaling the fines Greek sculptures of the sixth century...