Word: monumented
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...Khrushchev family was obviously resentful of this treatment and decided on their own to erect a monument in Novodyevichy. At a cost of about $20,000, the family hired Ernst Neizvestny, the Soviet Union's most talented sculptor...
Different invasions weathered and eroded it, piling monument upon monument. The contentions of monarchs and empires have stained it with blood, have wearied and refreshed its landscape repeatedly with mosques and cathedrals and fortresses. In the ebb and flow of histories and cultures it has time and time again been a flash-point where Aryan and Semite, Christian and Moslem met in a death embrace...
...this moving memorial to the victims of war reinforce the determination of all those who come here to build a living monument to those who died-a world of peace for their children and their grandchildren...
...duplicated the burnish and exuberance of the MGM product. The proof can be found in That's Entertainment!, a two-hour retrospective backed by the current owners of MGM. These are operators who have converted studio real estate and properties into the MGM Grand Hotel, a Las Vegas monument to brashness and vulgarity. Still, if they are contemptuous of the future, they are worshipful of the past-with sound reason. That's Entertainment! suffers occasional longueurs, but at its best it offers the kind of footage that can levitate an audience...
...built in Cambridge, the Kennedy Library will be a monument to man's insensitivity to the plight of the blacks and the poor. That's where I come from. That's where I get my votes. We are real people who do not intend to be forgotten. Saundra Graham City Councillor