Word: monumented
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...nonplussed, I was bewildered . . . to see well-informed and ordinarily accurate TIME report in its May 2 issue that Stan Jones, writer of Ghost Riders,* is a "leathery-necked forest ranger" in Death Valley National Monument...
Strolling on across the Ellipse, Harry Truman led his guest to the foot of the Washington Monument, and told Dutra how schoolchildren had paid for the monument with their pennies. After 40 minutes, the two Presidents were back at Blair House...
...circulation was so small (900) that "I could carry the entire issue on my back." Today, says Grosvenor, who shares his magazine's passionate addiction to detail, "A single issue would form a pile more than eight miles high, or 79 piles each as tall as the Washington Monument." In its familiar yellow-bordered, acorn-decorated wrapper, this month's issue reached 2,150,000 living rooms, libraries, throne rooms and dentists' offices from Maine to Monaco...
Murder of the Cathedral. Muscovites were likely to control their emotion. They could remember Moscow's first attempt to build a skyscraper, the Palace of Soviets, which was to be the world's biggest and grandest edifice. "The monument will be erected on a square [near] the Moskva River embankment," stated the plan, sponsored by Molotov. "The said square will be enlarged by tearing down the Cathedral of Christ the Redeemer...
Dogwood bloomed white and pink in Rock Creek Park and fishermen were out along the Potomac. Vacationing tourists were everywhere-swarming through the Capitol's dark corridors, leveling their cameras at the White House and the Washington Monument. In this fine spring atmosphere members of the House approved what was probably a peacetime record for one week's check-signing ($24 billion), then headed for home and a ten-day vacation. The Senate, far behind in its work, labored...