Word: monumentously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crowded into the historic burial ground to light candles in memory of the dead. This year the solemn tradition had a special poignancy. The photograph of a frail, youthful man in clerical collar had been nailed to a tree near an unmarked plot that has become the unofficial monument to those who died in the months following the imposition of martial law in December 1981. The inscription beneath the picture read KILLED BY SECURITY FORCES. For the mourners who added their candles to countless others flickering under the makeshift memorial, no other identification was necessary...
...country began nervously worrying about problem loans at other big banks. But they at least could take heart in the fitness of banks like Continental's archrival, First Chicago (assets: $40.5 billion). Located just three blocks from Continental in the downtown financial district, First Chicago seemed like a monument of strength. While many other big banks were posting shaky profits, it announced in July a second-quarter earnings gain of 23% over 1983. Last week, however, First Chicago made a stunning disclosure that stirred new concerns about the soundness of the U.S. banking industry. Chairman Barry Sullivan stated that...
Everywhere he glanced he saw defeat, "even in the eyes of the ushers," and found no charm in it. Green wanted lights and still does. He did not want Ernie Banks, the Cubs' living monument. They had been paying Ernie to be Ernie. (Who better for the job?) Seeing other uses for the money, Green asked waivers on tradition and began redoing his roster in ex-Dodgers and ex-White Sox and ex-Red Sox and ex-Phillies most of all. Notably Second Baseman Ryne Sandberg, Leftfielder Gary Matthews, Rightfielder...
...Johnson's china and set off with a California wine. Finally, Gromyko will be escorted to the diplomatic doorway in the back of the White House for his exit, far from probing cameras and obstreperous reporters. It is a vantage point with a magnificent panorama of the Washington Monument and the Jefferson Memorial. On a clear autumn day the air seems to rustle with the presidential whispers that have changed history...
...first suicide anyone could recall at the monument. To most of his friends, Davis had not seemed traumatized by Viet Nam, but some said he had returned cynical and bitter. "Who knows what he was thinking about?" said former Marine Mike Conner, one of the veterans who help stand a 24-hour volunteer watch at the memorial. "Maybe the survivor guilt...