Word: obelisk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This village, which is called Ushakovo, has lost one of its three dimensions. Now it has only length and breadth; there are no vertical elements save a couple of gateposts and a small wooden obelisk on a mass grave...
...Tomb of Thomas Jefferson above the run of books by the many minor poets who can write Frosty or Horatian lyrics as well as Lee. Now & then, in his severely chaste magazine verse, a reader can hear a rumble that means business, as when he writes of the obelisk that marks Jefferson's grave...