Word: monumentously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cabin near her home town of Ketchum, Idaho, spoke against a bill that would preserve only 526,000 of Idaho's 8 million acres of wilderness. Hemingway, 22, at first read calmly from her prepared statement, but broke down when she got to a quotation from a monument to her grandfather. As she had said earlier, "My testimony is from the heart...
Jabbar is a beautiful player. Too quick and agile to be so tall and angular, he seemed to have been designed originally as a natural monument to defiance, constructed out of high-tension wires, never to be touched. But his mettle must have softened over 15 seasons, or maybe some of the temper has just gone out of him. While Kareem still shoots and passes with grace and guile, he does not get his share of rebounds any more. On the worst basketball teams, the center is expected to do everything. On the best ones, he is required to rebound...
Somebody should remind President Ferdinand Marcos of this quote from Cato the Elder: "I would rather have men ask, after I am dead, why I have no monument than ask why I have...
...lured by the city's location near the center of the nation. A once dreary downtown area has become slick and modern. Gleaming office towers, as well as a sports arena and an expanded convention center, decorate the skyline. A street paved with red bricks winds around venerable Monument Circle, lending new stateliness to the Soldiers and Sailors Monument with its slender 284-ft. limestone shaft. Indianapolis is feeling major league, and its residents have ample reason for civic pride. "The excitement here reminds me of Atlanta in the early '70s," says Charles Blair, 36, a senior program...
Gregory M. Valtierra's thesis was something of a monument to his grandfather and the experience of immigrants to the U.S. His two huge murals designed for the VES Department were exhibited in the Leverett House dining hall for several weeks. Valtierra had never painted before, having concentrated in architecture until this year. "I had never painted anything bigger than a house," he says...