Word: monumented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gratitude to whoever wrote the profile of Lewis Carroll [July 6]. Carroll's Alice tales may be a literary monument to confusion, but they offer the kind of confusion our world needs. They are tonic for a baffled member of McNamara's Band toting a carbine upon the tundra. If our nonsensical world must remain nonsensical, may it return to the nonsense of a Wonderland...
Much of Churchill's accident-prone life is a monument to the healing properties of brandy and tobacco. His disasters started as early as birth, when his U.S.-born mother, Lady Randolph Churchill, seven months pregnant, felt labor pains in the middle of a ball at Blenheim Palace. Attendants were unable to rush her to a bedroom, and Winston made a spectacular entrance in a nearby cloakroom...
...doubt, Boston's greatest appeal is its cultural opportunities and great institutions. Boston's art treasures rank among the world's greatest. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, located on the Fenway, stands as a monument to the success of the acquisitive instinct in art collecting. According to the rather peculiar terms of Mrs. Gardner's will, the collection can not be added to or rearranged, nor can any work be removed, nor is anything permitted to be lent to other museums...
...village square of Anthili, 140 miles north of Athens, on the vast plain where the Persian King Xerxes camped in 480 B.C. before he charged Thermopylae, there stands a marble statue. It is not a monument to the defenders of Thermopylae, but to the recent rebirth of Anthili and the man who made it possible: Walter Eugene Packard, a Point Four soil reclamation expert from California...
...professional whose genius ripened early and produced an indelible monument in the wartime characters of Willie and Joe, Bill Mauldin floundered aimlessly through the postwar years before rediscovering and refining his talent...