Word: monumented
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...white binding tape that would later hang in their huts as a souvenir. Then they went back to the dusty hill towns that had seen nothing new since the gold boom had passed and Aleijadinho, his chisel lashed to the stump of a rotting arm, had hewn his greatest monument...
...Canal was cut to Amsterdam in 1876. From the town square, an imposing statue looks down at the idle harbor. It is Jan Pieterszoon Coen, Holland's great governor of the East Indies, who had pushed into Java to found an empire. Graven on the base of the monument, for Dutchmen to read, is his terse motto: "Desespereert niet" (Do not despair...
Says De Strobl, "I like my monument. I have done many things in my life and many of them I dislike after a few months, but this one I keep coming back to see." And as war memorials go, De Strobl's monument was indeed complex, harmonious, and impressive. Even so, Hungarians who look forward to a "second liberation" can hardly wait to topple it into the Danube...
...Voroshilov picked up De Strobl in his limousine, took him to the top of rocky Gellert Hill, which overlooks the city, the Danube, and the broad Hungarian plain. Said he: "This is where we will put our monument." With the help of 300 workers, they...
Model No. 50. De Strobl used no model for the woman in the Budapest monument ("She came directly from my stomach, as we say in Hungary"), but the Russian below her was modeled from a Red Army trooper-the 50th model that Voroshilov had sent around for approval...