Word: monumented
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...clear nights airline pilots can see the shimmering marble flanks of the Washington Monument for 25 miles, and they bank into their landing pattern as the faithful sentinel looks on. Laid out as a city of circles and curves, Washington can be a bewildering maze to visitors. But they can see the brave silhouette from almost anywhere in the District of Columbia and use it as a compass to locate other monuments and eventually to find their way out of the great, gray federal wilderness...
Mornings near sunrise, John Williams, a national park service ranger at the monument grounds, wheels his Toyota up out of the underpasses near the Kennedy Center. When he sees the spire, he feels better. The monument always says something a little different when it greets him. The Maryland marble of which it is constructed has a special quality that picks up the light of the hour and seems to subtly intensify it. "There it is," Williams says to himself, and then he studies the graceful shape to see what shades of gold or pink or gray are mixed...
Lady Bird Johnson understood that language too. She used to sit on the Truman Balcony of the White House and look at the monument as the sun went down and the swallows swooped around it. Almost every minute, she told friends, the light changed, shifting from pinks to the final deep purple, a splendid spectacle that would have held George Washington in its spell. Her husband, who was rarely humbled, used to fall silent when his helicopter came close in beside the monument on its approach to the White House South Lawn. From the window of the presidential helicopter...
...need," Levi says, "to prepare himself (and to prepare me) for an iron future, drawing closer month by month." In 1944 Sandro was executed by the Fascists, who left his body in the road. Levi's superb portrait of him in the chapter titled "Iron" remains his indestructible monument...
...Actor Fess Parker that included excerpts from presidential swearing-in addresses beginning with George Washington's in 1789. The 1 1/4-hour pageant ended with a gigantic fireworks display set off from both sides of the Ellipse and the White House South Lawn to ignite directly over the Washington Monument...