Word: monumented
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...spell of the Rockies; every weekend and holiday he spent hiking and exploring the rugged hills around Golden. He often brought home samples of curious rocks to show his wife and to decorate their meager basement apartment. In his backyard a sizable cairn of rock samples gradually accumulated-a monument to Fred Schwartzwalder's ab sorption in geology...
...Karl Marx, father of Communism, whose remains had lain undisturbed for almost 62 years, ever since he died peacefully in his small London house. They reburied him in a larger Highgate lot, some 200 yards away. There, Britain's Marx Memorial Committee will erect a polished black granite monument (estimated cost: $14,-ooo) with a reverent inscription...
...year ago, Pablo Picasso's young and beautiful wife, Francoise Gillot, left him. She took along their two children, aged 6 and 4, explained that she was "sick of living with a monument." The "monument" bestirred itself, and by February produced a series of 180 drawings that may well stand among the richest flowerings in soth century art. The drawings were first put together as a book in Paris. Last week they were available on U.S. book counters as Picasso and the Human Comedy (Harcourt, Brace...
...nation and that is our duty, patiently and daringly, to make sure whether there is such a change or not." Advocating that the free world look for areas of agreement, however, does not include the relaxation of military strength. The Nine Power Treaty is applauded by Churchill as "a monument and milestone" in the program for co-existence. His basic attitude is that "Our strength can only be founded on the unity, precautions and vigilance of the free nations of the world...
...orotund prose as incomparable. In a sly reference to his reputation as a brandy drinker, he called for a glass of water and downed it, remarking with a twinkle: "I only do it to show you that I can." Churchill hailed Eden's achievement at London as "a monument and a milestone in our march toward peaceful coexistence," paid generous tribute to the U.S. (see JUDGMENTS & PROPHECIES), spoke again, wistfully, of his dream of coexistence with a kindlier Russia...