Word: monumented
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Argentine optimists dreamed last week of adding another monument to the overdecorated parks of Buenos Aires. The hero: their Vice President and flexible strong man, Juan Domingo Perón. If he stepped aside and gave the nation a fair and free election, no statue would be too good...
...course of a few weeks' rustication, the pickle heiress realizes what a monument of selfishness the Duke is, and gets over her love for him. Richard wearies of making spaniel eyes at the termagant widow and rejects her quite brutally when she decides he'll do. And all four, neck-deep in subplot and mutual deception, spend a rambunctiously funny night dreaming about each other (the principals as living statues in slow, then fast motion...
...Ivan Chernyakhovsky died of a battle wound. The Russian "soldier's soldier," he was often at the front, taking risks no Allied Army commander is supposed to take. Moscow ordered a hero's funeral at Vilna, a grant and annuities to his widow and two children, a monument to honor a twice-named Hero of the Soviet Union...
Tokyo radio reported a more violent expression of opinion. Forty-three years ago the grateful Japanese erected a stone monument, near Yokohama, to Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry, who opened up Japan to western trade and influence. Last fortnight members of the Imperial Rule Assistance Youth Corps, "amidst yo-heave-ho shouts," tore it down. Replacing the Perry Monument is a wooden monolith with inscriptions "to stimulate the spirit to defend the fatherland...
...Zion Baptist Church were laid. By June all the brick work will be finished, and the congregation will move from the basement into an auditorium seating 856. After that, bit by bit, still paying as they go, Mount Zion's members will complete their $150,000 building, a monument to patient perseverance-and a quietly Christian rebuke to racial intolerance...