Word: monumented
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...China as a Red Cross director in 1940, and was captured by the Japanese during World War II. After inheriting Mary's long-hoarded money, he said he hoped with it "in some small way" to help improve U.S. foreign relations. He also resolved to erect a monument on the grave of the recluse's mother. Unforgiving Mary Bullock Powers had left it unmarked for 37 years...
...popular; many of his fellow citizens grudgingly envy him his wealth and audacity. As many more deprecate him, and point out, correctly, that he is hardly typical of the Texas millionaire (see box). Nevertheless, Glenn McCarthy is as peculiarly a product of Texas as the famed San Jacinto monument; the Lone Star State is one of the few places left in the world where millionaires hatch seasonally, like May flies...
...have a camel here that no one remembers, also a monument commemorating the first tunnel through the Alps...
...carries the unseen hero through papal and princely intrigues, the bloody uprising of Savonarola, the siege of Florence and the sack of Rome. Out of the turbulence of the age and the passionate rigors of Michelangelo's genius flowers the beauty of his masterworks: the David, the Medici monument, the Moses, the Sistine Chapel ceiling, the Last Judgment, the soaring dome of St. Peter...
...John Donne had a morbid obsession with death (". . . Never seek to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee") which prompted him to pose in a shroud for the sketch of his own monument, and keep the picture at his bedside until his death wish was fulfilled...