Word: monumental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lord Chancellor (1945-51) in the Cabinet of Labor's Clement Attlee, writer of whip-witted prose on legal subjects. Most notable of his works: The Strange Case of Alger Hiss, in which he concluded that Defendant Hiss (see PEOPLE) was unjustly convicted of perjury, the case a monument to feckless U.S. justice and the jury system...
...already flaking away in a slow death of peeling paint, collapsed masonry, commercial clutter and neglect. Nobody much cared. The fashion then was to lavish attention on the bustling new inland capital of Ankara. As time passed, tourist interest and national pride in the possession of a great historical monument gradually restored Turkish affection to the city they now called Istanbul. Still, nobody did much about repaving its streets, restoring its buildings or clearing its slums until last summer, when energetic Adnan Menderes, cooling off on the Bosporus, chanced to rummage around in some old plans for refurbishing the city...
...Americans feel that your stupendous road-building program should include the erection of a monument to Henry Ford, who started the mass production of automobiles that revolutionized the American way of life, making the superhighways a necessity...
...boarded his new royal-blue and white Bell Ranger helicopter.* Serious of mien, the President strapped himself in the four-place whirlybird next to White House Secret Service Chief Jim Rowley. The aircraft rose from the lawn, hovered above a cluster of photographers, then skimmed southwestward past the Washington Monument, followed by four other copters carrying some 20 White House staffers, including Ike's personal physician, Howard McC. Snyder...
Proud as a country squire showing off the new manorhouse, former President Harry S. Truman guided an impressive flock of old friends and old antagonists through the U.S.'s newest national monument, the $21 million Harry S. Truman Library at Independence, Mo. On hand for the library's dedication: ex-President Herbert Hoover, Eleanor Roosevelt, Chief Justice Earl Warren, Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson, Senate Republican Leader William Knowland, and durable old Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, who passed the time of day with his old colleague, thrust out his snapping-turtle neck to plant a buss...