Word: monumented
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...Spanish ironwork by way of Gonzalez, but they have a peculiarly American urgency and, so to speak, a questioning emptiness. Smith is the idol of young American sculptor-welders, who find that they can follow his lead on a large scale without too great expense (a big cast-bronze monument may cost $50,000 to erect; a welded steel one as little as $500). Smith stays more inventive than any of his imitators...
...expected to take at least three years. When it is finished, the site will be filled, graded and, if possible, reforested. Eventually some of it may become a park-a fitting monument to the city fathers who dumped combustible rubbish against a seam of coal...
...Bonn, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer observed July 20 by laying a wreath at a monument to the victims of the Nazis. In West Berlin, officers of the new Bundeswehr, who had to wear civilian clothes because of the city's quadripartite occupation status, gathered to honor July 20 at the old headquarters of the Wehrmacht on what is now, in memory of the day, called Stauffenbergstrasse. To the Communist East Berlin Neues Deutschland, this was "dirty-dog hypocrisy." Snapped West Berlin's Mayor Willy Brandt "Over there, they have good reason to fear a 'rebellion of conscience...
...year line to bear the name, is Germany's biggest liner and one of the world's most luxurious (airconditioning, nonbruising doorknobs, clothes dryers for wash-and-wear suits). Her owner, North German Lloyd, returning to transatlantic luxury service after 20 years' absence, is a monument to the frugality and enterprise that brought back Germany's decimated merchant marine to its present strength of 2,400 ships...
...Rebel Colors. Along the road, the mementos of war abound: a concrete monument to a taxi driver who was tortured and shot by Batista soldiers; the burned hulk of a bus, rusting and grown over with weeds; bullet holes in the roadside huts; the twisted girders of dynamited bridges, and the shaky timbers of temporary spans, where the water rushes hubcap-high. The road signs are newly painted black and red-the rebel colors...