Word: plinths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Years ago he managed to erect a plinth, as a base for his monument, in the Cobh town square. Months went by; Jerome Connor was nowhere to be seen; nothing appeared on the plinth. Years went by. One fine day a committee of Cobh councilmen referred to the empty plinth as "unsightly...
...serve as a Japanese intelligence officer in Mexico. But it was with the chisel that he really made his mark-most notably with the Nuns of the Battlefield tablet located in Washington, D.C. He was bound, his friends swore, to provide a superb piece of statuary for the plinth in Cobh...
...September, on behalf of his King, Gort presented the Maltese with the George Cross. The citation: for gallant endurance. Chief Justice Borg accepted the medal and deposited it under a plinth in the main square opposite an old palace of the Grand Masters of the Knights of St. John. Over the plinth the King's Own Malta Regiment took up solemn sentry duty. Stoically the Maltese burrowed into their ancient island. Grimly, for the power and the glory and for Christendom, the island of the Knights fought...
...London King George VI installed a new rowing machine at Buckingham Palace (to make up for the exercise he ordinarily gets at this time of the year shooting grouse), was undismayed at bombing raids that knocked John Milton's statue off its plinth at St. Giles...