Word: monumentously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were formed of coarse beach sand, which would have allowed chemicals to filter down to the aquifer lying 80 ft. or less below the surface. Therefore, Hooker is lining the vault with 10-ft.-thick walls of compacted clay. The vault will rise five stories into the air. "A monument to stupidity," snorts Marion Dawson, a leader in the long fight to force Hooker to clean...
...BEACH BOYS were also recorded live in the Nation's Capital this summer, but their arrangements were a bit more extravagant: a British TV production crew and a Fourth of July audience of 425,000 under sunny skies on the Washington Monument grounds. There were fireworks afterward, naturally. The videotape will be released worldwide in 1981 as part of a Beach Boys 20th anniversary celebration, and the Boys have ambitious plans of their own for the big Two Zero. Mike Love has told reporters the band will play in Copenhagen, London, Washington, Los Angeles and Honolulu, all on the Fourth...
...shortly after the coup and pistol-whipped a doctor in the middle of an operation. Pennue was subsequently imprisoned for a week and demoted to "co-member" of the council. In July, P.R.C. Co-Chairman Thomas Weh Syen went on a rampage in eastern Liberia, demolishing a century-old monument to the country's founders and ordering the discharge of hundreds of government employees. Doe-who has kept his master sergeant stripes-dispatched his commanding general to collar Weh Syen. Doe, a member of the Krahn tribe, then toured the eastern provinces and personally assured the people that...
...Gdansk workers tacked a number of political demands onto their calls for a $67-a-month pay increase and a rollback of meat prices. Among them: the establishment of more representative trade unions and the building of a monument to the 49 Gdansk workers killed during the 1970 riots. Seeking to avoid another bloody confrontation, officials at first showed a surprising willingness to negotiate, even at the risk of conferring a de facto legitimacy on the right to strike. Hours after the Gdansk action began, the state-controlled press reported that the government had offered a $40-a-month...
This summer, the Statue of Liberty national monument is displaying a photographic exhibit prepared by eight institute members with $36,000 in grants from the New York State Council on the Arts and the Council for the Humanities. Its theme: varied places of origin of U.S. immigrants in the 19th century...