Word: monumented
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Through the smoke the Russians could see the great Gothic tower of Königsberg's Schloss. For nearly seven centuries the Schloss (castle) had stood as a symbol of Prussianism. There the Teutonic Order had been nurtured. The tower reared 277 feet, a monument to the Junker caste that was the heart and mind of German militarism...
...crosses were dog tags with addresses in Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Oregon, Colorado, Rhode Island and Iowa. The Japanese had put up a rough cement cross with the inscription: IN MEMORY OF AMERICAN DEAD O'DONNELL WAR PERSONNEL ENCLOSURE ERECTED BY IMPERIAL JAPANESE ARMY But O'Donnell itself was monument enough...
...face with the resolute jaw were all that was visible to the crowd below. Immediately below the portico were 7,806 invited guests, including the Roosevelt grandchildren (see cut);* in the Ellipse stood 3,000 more. The President gazed at the crowd, then lifted his eyes to the Washington Monument, and to the Jefferson Memorial beyond...
Velasco had been virtually forgotten, even in Mexico, until three years ago. Then President Avila Camacho suddenly declared the painter's work a "national monument." His rediscovery was doubtless hastened by the Western Hemisphere's new cultural self-consciousness and loss of contact with wartime Europe...
...Germans fought to the bitter end long after it had become tactically unimportant. How much the city had suffered was not told, but it could not have escaped vast damage. The first of the satellite capitals to feel war's destruction, it stood this week as a monument to the Germans' readiness to sacrifice somebody else's possessions, and to the Russians' complexity of attack...